Running out of space [SOLVED]

[banjoman]

I am now regularly getting warnings that my 20GB file partition is running low on space. I keep clearing out var/tmp which accumulates files produced when printing, but am not sure what other folders might contain unnecessary clutter.

I am running Mint 19 on a Sony Vaio laptop with a 1TB hard disc, 20GB of which is partitioned for the file system. I would have thought this was ample, but it is frustrating to keep having to clear temp files out manually.

Any advice gratefully received, thanks....

[catweazel]

I am now regularly getting warnings that my 20GB file partition is running low on space.

Please post the output of this terminal command:

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sudo dpkg --list 'linux-image*'|awk '{ if ($1=="ii") print $2}'|grep -v `uname -r`

Enclose the results between [ⅽode] and [/ⅽode] code markers by selecting </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply. Simply copy the text and paste it into a terminal.

[Anoep]

What you can do is clean up old stuff using the terminal.

Open the terminal and type the following commands:

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sudo apt-get autoclean

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sudo apt-get clean

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sudo apt-get autoremove

The first command will delete all .deb files from the apt-get cache (/var/cache/apt/archives)
The second command will clean all downloaded .deb files from the local repository
the third command will clean packages that are installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are no longer required

You can also add the --purge key after each command. This will delete any configurations files as well which came with the original package.

[banjoman]

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linux-image-4.15.0-20-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-24-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-29-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-30-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-32-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-33-generic
linux-image-generic

[banjoman]

The terminal commands certainly created a few Gbs more space on that partition - many thanks

[smurphos]

Launch Update Manager > View > Linux Kernels and remove all but the active one and one backup older one.

[banjoman]

I have removed some kernels. Only the ones listed as installed were able to be removed. Are the others taking up space? If so how can they be removed? It doesn't seem to have resulted in more free space though!

Kernels.png

[Laurent85]

Are the others taking up space?

No.

It doesn't seem to have resulted in more free space though

See how much free disk space left now:

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df -h /

[banjoman]

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Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        19G   14G  3.8G  79% /

Though the File folder window reports 3.3Gb free. Anyway that is a huge improvement over the handful of Mbs I had before!!

Many thanks.....

[Anoep]

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Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        19G   14G  3.8G  79% /

You could consider buying a bigger hard drive....

[JerryF]

Can you post the result of this command:

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inxi -P

[gm10]

but am not sure what other folders might contain unnecessary clutter.

In the Mint menu you can find the Disk Usage Analyzer and have it analyze the entire filesystem to give you an overview.

[banjoman]

I can't actually make much sense of the information presented by disk analyser. I should have edited this as solved. The 3 terminal commands and deleting previous linux kernels mentioned in a previous reply seem to have reclaimed enough space...