Hi all
Report from commands given by Keith and Ralph are below. Sorry a long
email but:
Keith:
df -h:-
size used avail % mounted
udev 1.5G 0 1.5G 0 /dev
tmpfs 299M 2.8M 296M 1 /run
/dev/sda1 26G 23G 1.4G 95 /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0 /dev/shm
tmpfs 5M 4K 5M 1 /run/lock
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0 /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 194G 63G 121G 35 /Home
tmpfs 299M 36K 299M 1 /run/use/1000
Output of sudo du -sh/var/*
17M /var/backups
146M /var/cache
3.9G /var/lib
4K /var/local
0 /var/lock
1.2G /var/log
4K /var/mail
0 /var/run
109M /var/spool
12G /tmp/var
Ralph's commands:
df / .
filesys 1K blocks used avail % Mount
/dev/sda1 26934204 24111280 1431724 95 /
/dev/sda3 ----- ---------- ------ -- /Home (not
listed figes as it's Home
sudo apt-get clean & sudo apt-get autorun gave no figures other
than o
End of reports
Thanks for the help but does it show anything?
C A Wills
On 29/01/2021 10:49, C Wills wrote:
Hi Tim
Just got to see your reply and also Ralphs. He's correct in that
there is no space between '/' & 'Home': I've already reduced half of
the small swap file. I've been told not to try to move the front of
Home forward as it's very risky and Gparted warns of this. If I was
redoing the partitioning then I could give root a larger space. When
I did original install I gave it 20GiB as I had never used more than
13/14GiB. Also I'd like to know why this is happening, i.e. have I
got a rough program running 'frequently' which is fill up the space?
(It's not only on Lily space as it's happening on my Home as well).
The only additional Programmes add to the clean install have been
Digikam & Hardinfo. Those two progs have never given any problems
before. When I've made some space it appears to be partially used up
immediately without running anything else - see previous comments.
I see Ralph has given me two other commands to do which I'll do later
and report back.
C A Wills
On 28/01/2021 20:17, Tim wrote:
Hi Clive
Can I ask why you cant reduce your home partition and then extend the
root into the free space ?
Tim H
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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