On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 08:57:18 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 02:47:52AM +0000, Matthew Crews wrote: > > My guess? /home is on the same partition as /, which is a common setup > > for most end users. Running lsblk is one way to tell if this is the case. > > >From one of Stephen's earlier emails: > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev > tmpfs 789M 18M 772M 3% /run > /dev/sda1 23G 23G 0 100% / > tmpfs 3.9G 18M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > /dev/sda7 1.9G 6.5M 1.7G 1% /tmp > /dev/sda5 9.2G 6.0G 2.8G 69% /var > /dev/sda8 416G 103G 292G 27% /home > /dev/sdc1 20G 301M 19G 2% /sdc1 > /dev/sdc2 439G 169G 270G 39% /sdc2 > /dev/sdb1 1.8T 288G 1.5T 17% /sdb1 > tmpfs 789M 4.0K 789M 1% /run/user/110 > tmpfs 789M 28K 789M 1% /run/user/1000 > > i.e. /home is already on a separate partition. > > Several people have now suggested saving space in a bits of the > filesystem that Stephen has on dedicated partitions, so this is not > helpful. > > This partitioning scheme seems really odd and unwieldy. So much > wasted space on partitions that will never need anything like what > they have been assigned. This seems like a great example of how not > to partition a system - anyone thinking of using this many > partitions really should consider LVM in future. > > Anyway, Stephen, you need to focus on finding useless things in / and > either removing them or moving them elsewhere. If it's just data > then it looks like somewhere under /home would be a good choice as > it has 292G available. > > Ask before deleting anything you don't fully understand.
1. First assess what the space on / is allocated to. du -hs /lib/ du -hs /etc/ du -hs /usr/ du -hs /usr/bin/ du -hs /usr/local/ etc, etc. 2. Then go through dpkg -l | less line by line, asking "do I really need that?". I'd not bother with looking at the library packages. Tedious? Yes, like tidying the boot of a car. 3. Purge what is not wanted ("do I really need ten kernel packages?) with apt and occasionally use 'apt --purge autoremove', keeping an eye on 'df -hl'. -- Brian.