On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:26:23 +0000 Owen <o...@gonwanda.net> 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.
Hi Owen, I think maybe disk size snuck up on us while we weren't looking. I seriously thought my OS (Void Linux in this case) was using 4GB, but in response to your post measured: ==================================================== [root@mydesk /]# du -h -s /usr 24G /usr [root@mydesk /]# ==================================================== I have the usual suspects installed: Libreoffice, Vim, emacs, Firefox, Chromium, Openbox, LXDE, and a whole bunch of smaller stuff I've installed over the years. I'd be very surprised if a server-only system with LXDE/Openbox got past 10GB, but programs are apparently a lot bigger than they were six years ago, when I was routinely installing in 5GB. I don't know whether you have a laptop or a desktop, or whether your root partition is on SSD or spinning rust, but either way, disk space is getting pretty cheap. 1TB SSDs are under $100 now, so you could have 320GB for / and the rest for other stuff. With SSD it's important never to get too close to filling the drive, or you start repeatedly writing on a small subset of the SSD. If you're using spinning rust, you could use 160GB for /, and probably wouldn't need to enlarge it for a few years. You can get Western Digital Blue 4TB for just over $100. You can get even more bang for your buck if you go Seagate, but I don't do that. Unless there's something I'm missing, I'd advise just being generous with your root partition, assuming /usr is on the root partition. By the way, for the past 5 years I've had great success with using a 256GB SSD as my root partition, and putting all my big data files on mounted spinning rust. My programs from /usr/bin load lightning fast, but all told I have over 3T. ==================================================== [slitt@mydesk tsjustfacts]$ df -h /dev/sda1 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 220G 26G 183G 13% / [slitt@mydesk tsjustfacts]$ ==================================================== HTH, SteveT Steve Litt February 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng