I have been doing backups with the following command:

rsync -av #SOURCEPATH #DESTPATH

I noticed that I don't have much disk space left and I think it is due to the backups I am running. I tried to include a pic of my df -h and lsblk output but I can't insert image. Basically, it says I don't have hard drive space on my dev/dm-0 which I think is my hard drive.



I tried to find the TRASH folder and empty it out but for some reason, there is no trash folder when I go to:
ls ~/.local/Trash or ~/media/.local/Trash



I also tried to find the largest files with the following command but the output goes to fast and when I scroll up, I am not able to see what I need. I just see the /proc/ entries which I believe are not relevant:
find / -size +1G -ls


I tried sudo apt-get clean but that didn't empty any trash either.

Let me know if there is a place I can check to free up disk space as I am 80% sure it is because of rsync backups.

Thanks in advance. -Q

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Post these 2 links please
"sudo apt-get clean" only cleans /var/cache/apt/archives

Enjoy the Goodness!

gabriel@linux1:~$ sudo lsblk | nc termbin.com 9999
Use netcat.

gabriel@linux1:~$ sudo df -hT | nc termbin 9999
nc: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

gabriel@linux1:~$ sudo lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 243M 0 part /boot
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 232.6G 0 part
├─linux1--vg-root (dm-0) 252:0 0 228.6G 0 lvm /
└─linux1--vg-swap_1 (dm-1) 252:1 0 4G 0 lvm [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

gabriel@linux1:~$ sudo df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 396M 748K 395M 1% /run
/dev/dm-0 ext4 225G 224G 0 100% /
none tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
/dev/sda1 ext2 236M 70M 154M 32% /boot
overflow tmpfs 1.0M 1020K 4.0K 100% /tmp

to make a scrollable list of files greater than 1G in size

Thanks szboardstretcher. That is a better way to search for large files than I did yesterday.

There is a large log file syslog.1. Not sure if I need it. I also tried to open it and it locked up my system yesterday.


8389562 61502192 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 62978228224 May 19 06:32 /var/log/syslog.1
4026531993 0 -r-------- 1 root root 140737477877760 May 24 11:02 /proc/kcore

If it were me, I would remove /var/log/syslog.1

kcore is a virtual file. Don't touch it.

I always thought my hard drive was 225 Gigs and that is was under /dev/sda, but I see that it is probably under dev/dm-0.

Does this indicate any problem?

Also, I deleted the syslog.1 file and see more disk space....is there a way to check if my rsync backups are causing the disk space consumption?

Thanks for the help so far.

gabriel@linux1:~$ sudo df -hT
[sudo] password for gabriel:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 396M 748K 395M 1% /run
/dev/dm-0 ext4 225G 165G 49G 78% /
none tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
/dev/sda1 ext2 236M 70M 154M 32% /boot
overflow tmpfs 1.0M 1020K 4.0K 100% /tmp

You can use just
or
since your / partition is on it.

The .1 in /var/log/syslog.1 is indicative of logrote, but that's all I can recall.
That should have rotated in a much smaller size and cycled out the "old" rotations.

Others here may have some details about how that is done, if it can be done, and
if I'm not just talking out the side of my neck (smack/bs)...

rsync has a "dry-run" switch (-n)
so try
and examine the summary.