Losing free space on USB?

[cod500]

Hello I am new to Linux and this forum, sorry if this is a stupid question. I have mint on a usb persistent on my laptop. I notice that my free space keeps going down and there is no way to get it back. I even tried bleachbit but it only got back 150mb of my lost space. Where exactly does mint put the files it uses? I wish to get my free space back. Thankyou.

[viking777]

I know nothing about persistent usb installs, but on my hard drive install I noticed a similar situation a couple of days ago. The culprit in my case and perhaps in yours is the apt cache. The cure it to run the terminal command

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sudo apt-get autoclean

Which will remove a lot of the files therein, or if the problem is very serious

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sudo apt-get clean

Which will remove all the files.

The only consequence is that if you choose to reinstall a program at a later stage you will have to download it over again rather than using the locally cached version.

Hope that helps.

[cod500]

Thank you for your response but that did not seem to help. It did something then said done, but when i checked my free space it was the same. Is there a disk usage analyzer or something? I can't seem to find on in Linux mint 9 xfce.

[viking777]

Open a terminal

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cd /

then

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sudo du -xs * | sort -n

Will arrange all your folders in size order lowest to highest size (in kilobytes).

[cod500]

Thanks for the help but i still cant retrieve my lost files. Is this just a problem with linux mint?