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[Greynomad455]

Hi I'm a 78year old retired software developer, have been using all sort of Linux flavours, like Suse, Ubuntu, Peppermint , Kubuntu, Zorin, Debian and Linuxmint. I upgraded to the latest version hoping to get rid of a weird disk space problem. Disks reports 166 GB — 47 GB free (71.9% full). Disk usage Analyzer shows 22.8GB half of which is my Thunderbird multiyear messages. I've tried anything I could do with Timeshift, version management etc... to clean up this discrepancy to no avail and it's getting worse again 2 days ago I had 80GB free. Kind of rocks my confidence in the operating system.

[Jymm]

Did you run a scan on Disk Usage Analyzer which will give you a breakdown of what is using disk space?

[kc1di]

Hello Greynomad455,
Welcome to Linux Mint Forum, enjoy the journey!

[rickNS]

I upgraded to the latest version hoping to get rid of a weird disk space problem. Disks reports 166 GB — 47 GB free (71.9% full).
/CUT/
and it's getting worse again 2 days ago I had 80GB free. Kind of rocks my confidence in the operating system.

"If" you actually lost 30+ GB of space in the last two days something is amiss, perhaps logs are running wild ?

What is the size of your /var directory ?
And what is the size of /var/log directory ?

Mine are (after a year or so) /var = 82 MB on disk, /var/log = 86 MB on disk.

Keep in mind different programs report differently, not that that would make that much difference, but something to be aware of, and some programs do not count .hidden folders.
I have, on a backup drive some backups that say they are, for example 622kb

ksnip240122-204842.jpg (9.06 KiB) Viewed 951 times

and yet inside of that directory is .mozilla, that has 345 MB ?

And out of curiosity what does df -h give you ?

[Greynomad455]

Disk Analysis results are show in the body of the question, cant really figure how to insert a PrtSc into this DUH!... What is in that 151G????

erik@evThinkPad-X280:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.6G 1.9M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p5 151G 121G 23G 85% /
tmpfs 7.7G 221M 7.5G 3% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p1 96M 37M 60M 38% /boot/efi
tmpfs 1.6G 2.2M 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
erik@evThinkPad-X280:~$

[Greynomad455]

Yes Jymm the Disk analysis shows 33Gb (10 more than yesterday since I downloaded a 10GB Haines Car manual). How do you include screenshots it the posts? Remmeber Gparted shows 166gB for partition

[Greynomad455]

Now I followed somebody else opinion and this report shows:

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[Jymm]

I sent you an email on how to add screenshots

[Greynomad455]

thanks Jimm I managed screenshots with frameshot (KDE)

[Greynomad455]

Now I followed somebody else opinion and this report shows:
Note the 60GB in timeshift!!!!:

[erik@evThinkPad-X280:/$ sudo du -xhd1 / | sort -hr
[sudo] password for erik:
134G /
60G /timeshift
32G /home
17G /var
14G /usr
11G /media
794M /opt
301M /boot
33M /root
30M /etc
168K /tmp
48K /snap
16K /lost+found
4.0K /srv
4.0K /mnt
4.0K /cdrom

[Greynomad455]

Yet Timeshift itself says there are 4 snapshots and 10.1GB is shown apparently on/dev/nvme0n1p5

[Greynomad455]

Timeshift obviously reports free space so after deleting all snapshots I have 74.5GB available!!! I'll keep an eye on that, which means it keeps a back-up of Trash, illogical it should disappear after each incremental/decremental version. Strange version control.

[rickNS]

[erik@evThinkPad-X280:/$ sudo du -xhd1 / | sort -hr
[sudo] password for erik:
134G /
60G /timeshift
32G /home
17G /var
14G /usr

I asked you for this over a week ago, your /var folder is a bit out of control at 17GB,
Mine is less than 1GB.
819M /var

[NM64]

your /var folder is a bit out of control at 17GB,
Mine is less than 1GB.

They might just have quite a few Flatpak applications installed—for example, mine is 29.7GB as reported by Thunar but 24.7GB of it is stored within /var/lib/flatpak

[karlchen]

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