How can I free up disk space in my Ubuntu Hardy Heron install?

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Published on 2010-05-18T16:15:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 10:32 UTC
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I'd like to make some room on /dev/sda1 without necessarily having to remove a whole bunch of applications (I've already gone through and deleted all frivolous apps).

This is the state of /dev/sda1 currently:

Dir: /
Type: ext3
Total: 9.4GiB
Free: 488.6MiB
Available: 0bytes
Used: 8.9GiB

EDIT added du output from comments below:

769068 /var/lib/mysql
351208 /usr/lib
297060 /usr/local/bin/eclipse/plugins
184124 /usr/bin
175924 /usr/lib/openoffice/program
143940 /usr/local/bin/eclipsePHP/plugins
 92520 /boot
 81200 /opt/android-sdk-linux/add-ons/google_apis-6_r01/images
 79964 /opt

That's funny, because the tables in /var/lib/mysql are the reason that I ran out in the first place. But I need them, and room for many more possibly large db's.

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