Low Disk Space Warning

[Fairway Fatty]

The only thing that jumps out at me is 647G /media
This '/media/fairway is not a mountpoint' tells me that it's a folder in the root filesystem, i.e., not a mounted partition.
So add 647G to the 19G of the / folder and that would be the total space used.

When I drill into /media/fairway it shows my internal and external drives. The one with the long name is the dual boot 500GB SSD that has ~415 GB to Win10 and ~85GB for linux. The BackupStorage is a folder on the space I created for linux on the 1.5/.5TB external drive (524GB).
Anyway - I haven't seen the error on either machine in a couple of days and will try and capture what I was doing and post if it reoccurs.
Thanks again for taking a look!

[Fairway Fatty]

Received this error today...

[Larry78723]

please post the results of

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cat /etc/fstab

so we can see what your mount points are

[Fairway Fatty]

please post the results of

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cat /etc/fstab

so we can see what your mount points are

Thanks for looking!
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5948425c-4f26-4be0-88a1-a5a43850c2bf / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=be5aa7e0-d099-4ade-9886-d54b3db04230 none swap sw 0 0
UUID=7509fbb4-7a01-4d83-a780-140a37fe2501 /media/fairway/BackupStorage ext4 defaults 0 0

[Larry78723]

The only valid mountpoint in your fstab is /media/fairway/BackupStorage so it's storing everything in /media/fairway. You can fix this by creating a folder under /media/fairway named BackupStorage.

[Fairway Fatty]

The only valid mountpoint in your fstab is /media/fairway/BackupStorage so it's storing everything in /media/fairway. You can fix this by creating a folder under /media/fairway named BackupStorage.

Larry - It already exists.

[Larry78723]

Please post the results of the following command on PC2

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blkid

[Fairway Fatty]

Please post the results of the following command on PC2

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blkid

Here is result from PC2 (I havent received the low disk space error on PC2 in a while...PC1 has the most recent/frequent error and what I have most recently inquired - I'll upload that in a few mins.)
/dev/sda1: UUID="NVfQyg-G6H1-iWUr-9w75-5NIC-Kd2d-awWQDS" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="dd27a62b-01"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="3e040e70-22cd-4d02-8257-e4cc4ad2ca54" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="1d834789-01"
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-root: UUID="95034ea6-9f3f-42d9-8c4d-463742e27af7" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-swap_1: UUID="075c198f-7c35-4664-a904-51bf1b0c7991" TYPE="swap"
PC1 (most recent error)
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="AE4A299A4A295FF7" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="0e437092-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="106A2B0A6A2AEBE2" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="0e437092-02"
/dev/sda3: UUID="044849B84849A8EE" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="0e437092-03"
/dev/sda5: UUID="5948425c-4f26-4be0-88a1-a5a43850c2bf" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0e437092-05"
/dev/sda6: UUID="be5aa7e0-d099-4ade-9886-d54b3db04230" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="0e437092-06"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="1TB INTERNAL" UUID="EC0AA5580AA52096" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="50bb2ce9-01"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="1.5TB Win10 .5TB Linux" UUID="8E1C09B31C0996FD" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="50bb2ce8-01"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="7509fbb4-7a01-4d83-a780-140a37fe2501" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="50bb2ce8-02"

[DAMIEN1307]

Could this have anything to do with,

"LVM2_member"

, "Logical Volume Manager", being installed???...DAMIEN

[Fairway Fatty]

Could this have anything to do with,

"LVM2_member"

, "Logical Volume Manager", being installed???...DAMIEN

LVM was an option I selected during the Mint auto install process on PC2.
PC1 is the machine with the most frequent disk error and the one i'd like help on at this point.
Thanks for taking a look!

[Larry78723]

In a terminal, please run the following commands on PC1 and post the results

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ls -l /media/fairway/BackupStorage

and

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ls -l /media/fairway

[Fairway Fatty]

In a terminal, please run the following commands on PC1 and post the results

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ls -l /media/fairway/BackupStorage

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ls -l /media/fairway

Here is results.....
ls -l /media/fairway/BackupStorage
total 92
drwxrwxr-x 7 fairway fairway 4096 Aug 19 19:46 Copied Downloads
drwxrwxr-x 2 fairway fairway 69632 Feb 2 2019 IP7 PHOTOS
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 19 17:08 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 29 15:05 timeshift
ls -l /media/fairway
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 6 fairway fairway 4096 Aug 19 20:03 BackupStorage

[Fairway Fatty]

Seems this would be a simple fix except to me.

[Fairway Fatty]

PC1

[BG405]

Try this: du -h /var/cache/apt/archives/ & post the results.

It's quite common for old packages to accumulate filling up /. I think this one might catch quite a few people out ..

[Larry78723]

BG405, good catch. I never think about that because I've always set Synaptic to delete downloaded packages after installation. I think you're on the right track for fixing the OP's problem.

[Fairway Fatty]

Try this: du -h /var/cache/apt/archives/ & post the results.
It's quite common for old packages to accumulate filling up /. I think this one might catch quite a few people out ..

Doesn't look like the problem is there. Thanks for taking a look.
Results:
fairway@fairway-MS-7A71 ~ $ sudo su
[sudo] password for fairway:
fairway-MS-7A71 fairway # du -h /var/cache/apt/archives/
4.0K /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
116K /var/cache/apt/archives/

[deepakdeshp]

https://itsfoss.com/free-up-space-ubuntu-linux/

[Fairway Fatty]

https://itsfoss.com/free-up-space-ubuntu-linux/

Went to the link and ran almost everyone:
sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
sudo du -sh /var/cache/apt
101M /var/cache/apt
du -sh ~/.cache/thumbnails
132K /home/fairway/.cache/thumbnails
rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/*
sudo dpkg --list 'linux-image*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un linux-image <none> <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-4. 4.15.0-54.58 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
un linux-image-un <none> <none> (no description available)
sudo apt-get install gtkorphan
Installed and ran gtkOrphan - showed about 20 Orphans but none were very large.
Uninstalling unnecessary applications
I had already done this
du -h /var/lib/snapd/snaps
4.0K /var/lib/snapd/snaps/partial
761M /var/lib/snapd/snaps

I didn't try the other 2...a bit over my head. I run bleachit often.

[deepakdeshp]

Bleachbit is dangerous and may wreck your system. Instead use this.
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... t.html?m=1