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Old 07-22-2020, 09:49 AM   #1
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Disk Space "/" full and not able to download software. (Bodhi Linux)


pratham@BUTTERBYTE:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 982344 0 982344 0% /dev
tmpfs 203140 1108 202032 1% /run
/dev/sda5 9776636 7486380 1773904 81% /
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1015688 0 1015688 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 99328 99328 0 100% /snap/core/9665
/dev/loop1 98944 98944 0 100% /snap/core/9436
/dev/sda7 48950948 1430080 45004544 4% /home
tmpfs 203136 12 203124 1% /run/user/1000

Am I doing something wrong? How to I clear space?

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Old 07-22-2020, 10:08 AM   #2
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pratham@BUTTERBYTE:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 982344 0 982344 0% /dev
tmpfs 203140 1108 202032 1% /run
/dev/sda5 9776636 7486380 1773904 81% /
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1015688 0 1015688 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 99328 99328 0 100% /snap/core/9665
/dev/loop1 98944 98944 0 100% /snap/core/9436
/dev/sda7 48950948 1430080 45004544 4% /home
tmpfs 203136 12 203124 1% /run/user/1000

Am I doing something wrong? How to I clear space?
Welcome to LQ,

Based on this df output, nothing is full.

/dev/sda5 is where you have root /

That shows at 81% use.

Perhaps you can post more details about what you did to encounter the error you report in your thread title, and post some more details about that.
 
Old 07-22-2020, 02:26 PM   #3
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Welcome to LQ,

Based on this df output, nothing is full.

/dev/sda5 is where you have root /

That shows at 81% use.

Perhaps you can post more details about what you did to encounter the error you report in your thread title, and post some more details about that.
Actually i had codeblocks installed and then i was installing eclipse and i got a 'disk space "/" 99% used' and eclipse wasn't installed so i deleted the files and still its harder for me to install new software as the disk space "/" shoots to 99% as soon as iI install any new software.
 
Old 07-22-2020, 04:13 PM   #4
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It looks like you have 1.7gig free on a 10gig drive.

Try one package at a time and see how much space it eats up.

Better output using df -h by the way.

Those packages should not exhaust your drive space.
 
Old 07-22-2020, 08:03 PM   #5
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Take a look at /temp to see if you have been accumulating garbage in /temp. If so delete the garbage and try again.

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Old 07-23-2020, 02:51 AM   #6
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It looks like you have 1.7gig free on a 10gig drive.
This.
It is not impossible to run a GUI with so little space, but one needs to be careful about what one installs. Snaps are probably right out, and cross-platform bloatware like codeblocks.
Your other thread suggests that your /home is significantly larger? Maybe you need to re-partition? IMHO a separate $HOME is not required.
 
Old 07-23-2020, 06:31 AM   #7
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Original poster thinks that software is normally installed in /home.
 
  


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