Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Larry Brigman
'fsresize' is your friend after you change your partition sizes. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 5:12 PM Chuck Hast Select morsels of good data, thanks to you all. I went in and looked at the > 9.1G partition, > it has /tmp and /var in there so yes those have a bunch of log files and > whatnot in there. >

[PLUG] Issue while trying another distribution

2018-11-05 Thread Dick Steffens
 This time I'm trying Linux Mint 19 Mate. I installed it on my Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Tablet. For a few days after the installation, lifting the lid and moving the trackpoint would bring the laptop out of suspend. One of the settings is to "do nothing" when the lid is closed. This is a feature I

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Chuck Hast
Select morsels of good data, thanks to you all. I went in and looked at the 9.1G partition, it has /tmp and /var in there so yes those have a bunch of log files and whatnot in there. Now I will just re-size the thing when I get home (I am on the road in a hotel tonight). I am going to have to

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Nat Taylor wrote: if you type du / | sort -n And, if you append the -sh options to the disk usage command the results will be a summary for each section (e.g., directory) and in human-readable format. A second pass within a large directory, without the '-s' option

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread Nat Taylor
if you type du / | sort -n it will tell you the size of all the files and folders underneath / (Everything!), and pipe it to the sort program, which will sort by size when you give it the -n flag you will need to wait a while for the operation to complete, and it won't look into protected

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Root full...

2018-11-05 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/4/18 8:37 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > Well, doing a df I see that / is the 9.1G partition and the other one is > /home. > > Prior to cleaning, the partition was 9.05G full, after doing the cleanup it > is now down to 8.7G. > so I have got to see what all is in it. Or I will have to make it