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[Andrew Ramage]

I cleared cache from Firefox and deleted to hidden directories that each 
contained one file containing a list of messages I had been receiving 
(messages looking for Bitcoin numbers) and recovered a lot of space.  
Here are the recommended commands:

andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo du -hs /*
[sudo] password for andrew:
375M    /bin
138M    /boot
4.0K    /cdrom
0    /dev
16M    /etc
97G    /home
0    /initrd.img
0    /initrd.img.old
901M    /lib
16K    /lost+found
8.0K    /media
40K    /mnt
202M    /opt
du: cannot access '/proc/3638/task/3638/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/3638/task/3638/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/3638/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/3638/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0    /proc
43M    /root
du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
1.5M    /run
14M    /sbin
8.0K    /snap
4.0K    /srv
0    /sys
112K    /tmp
8.2G    /usr
1.5G    /var
0    /vmlinuz
0    /vmlinuz.old
andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ df -i
Filesystem      Inodes  IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev            186436    660  185776    1% /dev
tmpfs           195734   1046  194688    1% /run
/dev/sda8      3055616 324047 2731569   11% /
tmpfs           195734    228  195506    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           195734      6  195728    1% /run/lock
tmpfs           195734     18  195716    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda9      9773056  94537 9678519    1% /home
tmpfs           195734     38  195696    1% /run/user/1000
andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$

On 24/08/2020 07:09, Ian Stuart wrote:
> tained
>
> On 22/08/2020 18:26, Andrew Ramage wrote:
>>
>> (lots of systems don't partition /home/ from /)
>>
>> If you've been playing with building a lot of docker images, that can
>> fill up /var/lib/docker quite quickly (I do, and I've currently got 218G
>> of data just there)
>>
>> I suspect video processing & image editing can leave large caches 
>> behind.
>> Warning. This email contains links or attachments and originates outside
>> of the University.
>> You should only click on links or attachments if you are certain that
>> the email is genuine and the content is safe.
>>
>> I should have 66G free on my home directory, but I have 0 bytes free.
>> Anyone know what's happened ?
> You filled the disk.
>
> When you say "Home Directory", what _partition_ are you on?
> (lots of systems don't partition /home/ from /)
>
> If you've been playing with building a lot of docker images, that can
> fill up /var/lib/docker quite quickly (I do, and I've currently got 218G
> of data just there)
>
> I suspect video processing & image editing can leave large caches behind.
>
> try running "sudo du -hs /*" to see which directory tree has all the
> space.... and then descent the tree to pinpoint the problem
>
> -- 
> Ian Stuart.
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