Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do: # mount -obind / /mnt # du -sh /mnt/*
so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special mounts (/proc, /sys etc) Thenn you'll do # umount /mnt to release the bind mount Ralph. Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote on 2020-02-13 18:38: > You fail to mention what was included in 'additional programs' but to > give you a hint I have a pretty much vanilla but up-to-date Ascii here > with just LXDE and root partition uses 7.1G. > May I suggest you traverse into / and look for usage? > cd /; du -sh *; > //PG > > > On 2020-02-13 03:26, Owen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> looking to get away from systemd, I'm moving from Ubuntu to Devuan (ascii). >> >> The system was installed 10 days ago, all went well and updates and >> additional pgograms installed well unyil today . . . >> >> The / partition was set as 40gb to be safe but today an "apt-get upgrade" >> failed due to lack of space: >> >> I've increased / to 60gb but I was never expecting it to ever get past 10gb. >> >> root@nucdevuan:/# df -m >> Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> udev 7947 0 7947 0% /dev >> tmpfs 1594 1 1593 1% /run >> /dev/nvme0n1p4 60786 39295 18375 69% / >> tmpfs 5 1 5 1% /run/lock >> tmpfs 6464 93 6372 2% /run/shm >> /dev/nvme0n1p5 26617 554 24682 3% /home >> /dev/nvme0n1p2 2960 103 2688 4% /boot >> /dev/nvme0n1p1 200 1 200 1% /boot/efi >> tmpfs 7967 0 7967 0% /sys/fs/cgroup >> tmpfs 1594 1 1594 1% /run/user/1000 >> >> "du -s" shows no huge files. >> >> "apt-get clean" and "apt-get autoclean" don't highlight anything to remove. >> >> Any ideas how I can reclaim 30gb of my disk space please? >> >> >> Thanks in anticipation. >> >> -- >> Owen >> o...@gonwanda.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng