On 22 May 2026 at 9:16, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:

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Subject:                size alert /
Date sent:              Fri, 22 May 2026 09:16:33 +0200
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> Hello,
> 
> / is now full at almost 100% without reason that I can identify.
> How can I troubleshoot the issue ?
> Which sub-directory has grown up?
> It seems that it is /var/lib
> 
> How can I fix it?
> 

Looking at my machine did this.
created script testdu.sh
cd /
echo 1 level
du . -x -k --max-depth=1 | sort -n
echo 2 level
du . -x -k --max-depth=2 | sort -n

/# ./testdu.sh 
1 level
4       ./afs
4       ./media
4       ./mnt
4       ./srv
8       ./DATAC
16      ./lost+found
51956   ./etc
2958060 ./opt
10078768        ./var
11159888        ./root
35349632        ./usr
59598968        .

Show the largest level 1. Couple import into calc via tab delimeter
Then create in column c1 =a1/$a$last row and format % with 6 
decimals.




2 level
...
,,,,
last lines.
1734580 ./opt/wine-devel
2209280 ./var/ftp
2346436 ./root/.wine
2650400 ./usr/bin
2958060 ./opt
4412952 ./usr/lib
6393420 ./var/lib
7740264 ./root/.cache
10078768        ./var
11159888        ./root
11395360        ./usr/share
14404440        ./usr/lib64
35349632        ./usr
59598968        .

Should give what is using space. 



> 
> 
> /dev/sda4                         91940832 86210116   1130112  99% /
> devtmpfs                          16224232        0  16224232   0% /dev
> tmpfs                             16360956    46084  16314872   1% /dev/shm
> efivarfs                               128       53        71  43% 
> /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> tmpfs                              6544384     2424   6541960   1% /run
> tmpfs                                 1024        0      1024   0% 
> /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
> /dev/loop0                             128      128         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
> /dev/loop4                           93952    93952         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
> /dev/loop1                           57088    57088         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2823
> /dev/loop2                           57088    57088         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2829
> /dev/loop3                          168832   168832         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/198
> /dev/loop5                          181504   181504         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/skype/348
> /dev/loop6                          185472   185472         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/skype/353
> /dev/loop7                           39808    39808         0 100% 
> /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/21759
> /dev/sdb9                         60160292 50262248   6914040  88% /VirtualBox
> /dev/sda5                           996780     8328    919640   1% /tmp
> /dev/sda9                          9976648   369756   9078508   4% /usr/local
> /dev/sdb7                        107091396 84635640  16989644  84% /home-ext
> /dev/sda8                         71689396 61349072   6666212  91% /home
> /dev/sda3                           511720    19832    491888   4% /boot/efi
> /dev/mapper/VolSys_1b-iso--image  10167132  5706152   3920308  60% /iso-image
> /dev/mapper/VolSys_1b-usr--src    25626852  6198188  18101560  26% /usr/src
> tmpfs                                 1024        0      1024   0% 
> /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
> tmpfs                              3272188    25956   3246232   1% 
> /run/user/1000
> encfs                             71689396 61349072   6666212  91% 
> /home/pdupre/pdupre-enc
> tmpfs                              3272188      136   3272052   1% /run/user/0
> 
> 
> 
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>  Patrick DUPRÉ                                 | | email: [email protected]
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