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Thanks for all the help and guidance given on this site.
I discovered that /var/tmp is just loaded with data hogging space on my / disk partition. Since my partitions are encrypted resizing them is a pain. There were a lot of log files from Opera that I removed, somehow two and three year old crash logs are useless.
There are also a bunch of one and two year old files like
Code:
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_uOipnE/:
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 bin
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 conf
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 scripts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7018 Nov 8 2014 init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 run
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_riyL5f/:
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 bin
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 conf
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 scripts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7018 Nov 8 2014 init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 2014 run
There are also a bunch of zero byte files from as much as two years ago like
Code:
| mkinitramfs-FW_ANOax7 │ 0│Sep 17 13:28│
│ mkinitramfs-FW_ECQBtb │ 0│Sep 17 16:04│
│ mkinitramfs-FW_GLz7Uu │ 0│Sep 17 13:32│
│ mkinitramfs-FW_Geem7x │ 0│Sep 17 14:10│
│ mkinitramfs-FW_JwIrhB │ 0│Aug 21 17:08│
│ mkinitramfs-FW_OXVgFv │ 0│Jul 19 2015│
│ mkinitramfs-FW_PY6CtQ │ 0│Jul 19 2015
These can't all need to be kept can they? I gather that a lot of them are from update fails because of a lack of drive space to complete the install, which only compounds the problem, or because a package, like virtualbox, fails to complete its install for some reason. At a 170meg apiece for the directories, twenty one of them, it doesn't take long to chew up a bunch of space.
How much of it is safe to remove?
Thanks