Hi Peter
Copying this to the DLUG as things are getting 'tight' not found any
reason for what's happening especially as I increased the partition by
2Gb - see below.
Lily has just looked at her emails and an authorisation box came up
asking for' My' password, not hers! She was not looking at anything
else! See * below
Earlier:
Looked at /var and it's full of 234 Flatpak folders like:
/flatpac-cache-DD80WO with a file repro-GtuRFp-lock./
no .gz files.
Don't know if I can delete these files without causing problems as some
showed .config files but the one I looked at was only 5 commands lines
with nothing indicating a location or a run file.
/var appears to hold11.3GB but that changed to 15.9 after looking
around the file system a bit.
* I checked the /var and it's gone up to 19+3Gb
Found a live disk of 'Rescatux' ran that and one option was to check
file system and repair but that came back as 'Failed'. Nothing else
appeared to do much on the file system / most was to do with boot &
UEFI problems.
Checked: /etc. = 8.9MB of data
/usr = 5GB
/sys = 617.4MB
/tmp = 73Kb
*
Just checked how full the file system partition is and it's showing only
334Mb free!!!! That's after I extend it by 2GB by reducing the 'Swop'
partitin.
Really don't know what to try next and don't know why Lily was asked for
'My' password; there must be a file running in the background needing
'Root' authority but she was in her 'home' folder not mine!
C A Wills
On 28/01/2021 12:10, PeterMerchant wrote:
That was bit of fun, had quite a clearout. Surprising the number of
empty directories. It goes against my sense of tidyness.
ps to remove empty directories it is 'rmdir'
Good luck
P.
On 28/01/2021 11:59, PeterMerchant wrote:
How about browsing into var, going to each folder and manually
deleting all the .gz files, which are backups of log files
It might be a 'sudo rm *.gz'
Wow, it just worked for me, got rid of about 35 files from the
var/backups directory, and var/log/apt
Peter
On 28/01/2021 08:43, C Wills wrote:
That looks a good bet but there's not enough room left to add the
program to the PC. I'll look at my back issues of LXF discs to see
if I've got it on a live disc; if so I'll try it.
As I said before I don't understand how the partition has got so
full, no additional programs have been added for at least a year if
not longer. So why has the partition filled up. I'm careful to
ensure there's a good spare space when installing and keep 'root'
and 'home' on different partitions.
C A Wills
On 27/01/2021 19:56, PeterMerchant wrote:
Perhaps try Bleachbit?
P.
On 27/01/2021 14:37, C Wills wrote:
Sorry the original copy was sent from another email address which
is not authorised by DLUG system. Sending from the correct
address, hope you don't get it twice!!
Clive
Hi All
Yesterday my wife started her PC and got a warning notice saying
there was on 1GiB on space left on the 'root' partition.
Checking today the following was reported:-
sda1 Ext4 / size - 24.5GiB, Used - 22.7GiB (93%) Free - 1.71GiB
(7%).
There is plenty of space for the /Home partition but no space on
sda1 and I can't extend it.
I checked with the disk analyser tool and it showed that the 'var'
file has used most of the space; it's full of Flatpack folders.
All the other folders look OK.
I remember seeing a tool that can 'clean' folder/discs but can't
find it now. Thought it may be the temp folder fill up the space
but that looks OK.
Can't work out what has happened to fill the 'root' folder, no
extra software installed and last time I looked it was only about
50% full.
If I don't do something soon then the PC will lock up And she will
do her 'nut' (doesn't like computers that go wrong!)
What's happening please and can I recover the space. All above by
using a GUI desktop, Mint 19.2 Cinnamon.
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