7 Gig should be more than enough. Use the du command to see how big your various directories are. For example to check /home use this command:
du -s -h /home
Then this thread contains some estimates of how big the various directories should be:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tition-699251/
Then you could see where you are having a space problem.
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Steve Stites