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
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:38:21 +, ci...@cewland.uk said:
> If I can't find out what is happening then I'll re-install Mint 19.2
Clive, you really, really do not need to reinstall Mint.
Files in /var/tmp are, generally speaking, safe to delete. The key
difference between /tmp and /var/tmp is
Hi Ralph
Ran the command and it deleted the files. Did a complete re-boot and
checked, it does not seem to have done much in reducing the partition
file size.
Noticed I may have misled you as the Flatpak folders mentioned in my
emails is in the /var/tmp folder.
Should that command be run
Hi Clive,
> > Left to its own devices, Flatpak doesn't delete some of the files it
> > has used in the past in case they're needed again. Ask it to get
> > rid of those explicitly with
> >
> > flatpak uninstall --unused
> >
> > and see if that helps.
>
> Ran that command and it came back
Hi Peter,
> > > 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
Hi Clive,
> 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.
Left to its own devices, Flatpak doesn't delete some of the files it has
used in the past in case they're needed again. Ask it to get rid of
those
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
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