On Mon, May 1, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 2/5/23 02:06, David Christensen wrote: >> On 5/1/23 06:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On my "new" Bullseye machines the root volume starts to fill up. The >>> cause seems to be the /usr/lib folder. >>> On my older Buster (10.13) machine the total /usr directory is 701M, >>> the /usr/lib folder is 260M >>> In my /usr/lib folder on Buster is NO /usr/lib/modules folder >>> >>> On my Bullseye machines the /usr/lib folder is 2+GB on the machines >>> that have been operating for a while and 1+G on a machine that has >>> been operating for a shorter while. >>> >>> The cause seems to be the folder /usr/lib/modules# >>> linams:/usr/lib/modules# du * -sh >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-10-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-11-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-12-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-13-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-15-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-16-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-18-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-19-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-20-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-21-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-22-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-7-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-8-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-9-amd64 >>> >>> And >>> linutr:/usr/lib/modules# du * -sh >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-16-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-17-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-18-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-19-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-20-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-21-amd64 >>> >>> And >>> lola:/usr/lib/modules# du * -sh >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-13-amd64 >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-19-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-20-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-21-amd64 >>> 309M 5.10.0-22-amd64 >>> >>> Guessing on what I see these are libraries for older kernel versions. >>> I usually clean up older kernel versions by using >>> # apt autoremove" >>> All 3 servers have 1 older kernel version installed according to apt >>> autoremove. >>> > > Have you tried running also > apt autoclean > and > apt purge > ? > > -- > .. > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > (UTC+0800) > ..............
Another thing I usually do after doing an "apt upgrade" that installs a new kernel is: aptitude -P purge '~o' aptitude -P purge '~c' The "-P" tells aptitude to ask permission before actually deleting anything. Rick