[SOLVED] I maxed out my root partition and I don't know HOW
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I maxed out my root partition and I don't know HOW
I just installed Linux Mint and I gave it a 20 GB partition for /. It is already maxed out on storage, and I don't know how. I haven't installed a lot of programs, and I use Bleachbit as root about once a week. I opened up disk usage analyzer and it doesn't show me anything out of the norm except /usr/lib and /usr/share are both over a GB large.
This may or may not be relevant, but I was doing a recovery on a partition and accidentally used the /media partition. I trashed the contents of the /media directory only to find that there was no trash bin for root, so I have no idea where those files went.
I resolved this myself by reinstalling the system. Sorry but all the messages about there being no space got really annoying, and I have work that needs to be done.
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