Root partion is almost full

[deathromantik]

My root is at 166.9Mb free and I am wondering if this is going to be a problem.

[AS]

My root is at 166.9Mb free and I am wondering if this is going to be a problem.

Hi,

short answer Yes, you are going to have issue, too much few space available, additionally the last %5 is normally available only from root user.
you can run bleachbit to cleanup some temporary files, both as user and as root.

AS

[Texstar]

My root is at 166.9Mb free and I am wondering if this is going to be a problem.

Well of course it is.

[muungwana]

How big are your partitions?

It could be that most of the space is taken by stuff you dont even know are in your system taking up space.

Open the terminal, log in as root and then run these two commands(copy and paste them on the terminal) and give their output. The last time will take some time to produce its output.

df -h

cd / &&  du -sch `ls -d * | sed  's/proc\///'`

[deathromantik]

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[root@linux deathromantik]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             7.4G  6.9G  141M  99% /
/dev/sdb5              13G  8.8G  4.2G  68% /home
none                 1009M   14M  995M   2% /tmp
/dev/sdc5             257G   36G  222G  14% /media/PORTABLE MU
/dev/sdc1             675G  223G  453G  33% /media/Elements
[root@linux deathromantik]# cd / &&  du -sch `ls -d * | sed  's/proc\///'`
15M     bin/
21M     boot/
1.4M    dead.letter
820K    dev/
43M     etc/
8.6G    home/
8.0K    initrd/
165M    lib/
16K     lost+found/
258G    media/
4.0K    mnt/
Root is the internal SSD and home is on a 16GB SDHC card with 2GB as swap.

[AS]

deathromantik,

the listing you are reporting look like not completed (i.e. don't see /usr, /var ... possibly others).
You should retry muungwana's command:

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cd / &&  du -sch `ls -d * | sed  's/proc\///'`or alternatively try the following (more or less will give the same result)

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du -s /*
of course, type commands from root console.

AS

[bicol_willem]

It looks you are reaching the maximum you can install (apps/games/whatever). As you have "2 hdd's" so to say, you have no option to resize / as you reached the max capacity of your SSD drive.

Clean apt if not yet done and if clean ..... you know the scope  Try to remove all you don't need (think apps, video drivers you don't need, etc.)

[menotu]

Root is the internal SSD and home is on a 16GB SDHC card with 2GB as swap.

If you install sometime in the future you may want to consider switching around:

/root = 16GB
/home = 8GB

especially as you have a 320GB drive on to which you can move stuff to from /home

[deathromantik]

I am thinking of upgrading to a 32 or 64 GB SDHC. I removed an old kernel and cleaned apt and cache.
running the du -s /* command gives:

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[root@linux deathromantik]# du -s /*
15M     /bin
12M     /boot
1.4M    /dead.letter
852K    /dev
43M     /etc
du: cannot access `/home/deathromantik/.gvfs': Permission denied
8.7G    /home
8.0K    /initrd
119M    /lib
16K     /lost+found
^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[A^[[A^[[A258G        /media
4.0K    /mnt
4.0K    /Module.symvers
0       /null
448M    /opt
du: cannot access `/proc/18412/task/18412/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/18412/task/18412/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/18412/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/18412/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
0       /proc
15M     /root
19M     /sbin
4.0K    /swap
0       /sys
64M     /tmp
5.2G    /usr
256M    /var


[AS]

deathromantik,

you can try to look in /var/log, probably several old log files can be deleted (those ending. with .0 .1 .2 ... and ending with .gz),
because of a know bug in logrotate package probably many log files are grown ... you can zero out these files using a command
like:

> logfilename

additionally, file in /tmp can be safely deleted.

look in /root/tmp too, and delete temporary files.

Of course, the real solution is to upgrade to a larger disk.

AS