Hi
Fairly new install of Ubuntu-mate yet I keep getting low disk space warnings for my root partition.
When I select 'root' in my File System volume I cannot view the contents or get an accurate size.
Is there a good 3rd party utility that helps remove unnneccesary files in your root to reclaim space?

Hey echo_bach,

Out of curiosity, have you run fsck (or such) on the partition? It might have problems other than not enough space.


If it is only a space problem, here's a link that might help, especially part 6a: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670

HTH,
Dave

AFAIK there aren't any unnecessary files in the root fs:-

Your can resize the root partition with g-parted but you need to be careful and accurate at doing so. Otherwise the system could become unbootable. You can't be booted into Ubuntu in order to resize it.

http://gparted.org/

http://www.binarytides.com/linux-com...sk-partitions/

If you have a split system. Log in as root, wait you got ubuntutu (sucks) if you did not have ubuntututu.

All you'd have to do is log in as root, and use Gparted. Being logged in as root, you would be able to unmount the user partition. Then using Gparted, move the end next to the root partition over to get it ready to give it to the root partition.....

well you could try using a USB Live stick that has Gparted. then move your partitions. then take that extra space and put it into the root partition, murge. then you'd be ok. it is not a hard thing to do, Just need to be able to unmount the partition you're are srinking.

In a terminal run
that will show you your disk sizes, used, & available space.

Did you install everything into one single partition?
Do you have any free space left on your disk?

(I don't think Ubuntu lets a 'user' look into the /root, unless you use sudo.)

Ah...fatmaac caught what I missed in the original post.

eco_bach, you might be confusing the user root's home directory (designated '/root') with the root directory (designated '/'). The root directory ('/') contains the entire Linux install, which may be spread over one to several partitions. The user root's home directory ('/root') is just one part of the root directory, and likely does not have its own partition.

HTH,
Dave

Fatmac has good advice to try 'df -h' for more details.

You mentioned in your post of 12/10 that you know how to edit partitions running gparted from a liveusb. So, do that. (Back up any important data first, just in case.)

Give yourself a large enough root partition for your present and future needs; mine is 40gb for example. Or, don't use a separate / partition if you don't want to; it is perfectly alright for most users to have a single partition for both / and /home.

There aren't really any "unnecessary files in root" so don't fall into the trap of randomly deleting things you don't understand. Enlarge the partition or buy a bigger hard drive. Storage is cheap in the year 2016.

Bleachbit (https://www.bleachbit.org/) might be of use to you (I use it in 2 ways, as a user and as root), but you need to use it carefully and wisely.

Until you are used to its operation, it's advisable to make a system backup before use.

Bleachbit doesn't make massive changes to size though, so for long-term sanity you should consider increasing the size of the root partition (if your problem is because of its limited size, not because of it being filled up by a wayward application). GParted will show you how big your root partition is and how much of it is used up.