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Use Disk Usage Analyzer or System Monitor to check space and capacity.

# Kontrollera hur mycket diskutrymme som finns kvar

You can check how much disk space is left with Disk Usage Analyzer or System Monitor.

# Check with Disk Usage Analyzer

To check the free disk space and disk capacity using Disk Usage Analyzer:

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Open Disk Usage Analyzer from the Activities overview. The window will display the Total file system capacity and Total file system usage. Click to toggle between View as Rings Chart and View as Treemap Chart.

Click Scan Home to check the disk space in the Home folder.

Click the Scan filesystem icon to check the '/' (Root) folder.

Click the Scan a folder icon to scan disk space inside a specific folder.

Click Scan a remote folder to scan disk space inside a remote folder.

The information is displayed according to Folder, Usage, Size and Contents. Click on the column headings to adjust the sort order.

Click Stop or Refresh anytime you need to cancel or update the scanning. See more details in Disk Usage Analyzer.

Disk Usage Analyzer can also be run by pressing Alt F2, typing 'baobab' (without the single-quotes) and pressing Enter.

# Check with System Monitor

To check the free disk space and disk capacity with System Monitor:

Open the System Monitor application from the Activities overview.

Select the File Systems tab to view the system's partitions and disk space usage. The information is displayed according to Total, Free, Available and Used.

# What if the disk is too full?

If the disk is too full you should:

Delete files that aren't important or that you won't use anymore.

Make backups of the important files that you won't need for a while and delete them from the hard drive.