My root (?) folder sda1 is getting full. It has only 1 GB free space, and I received a warning about it. Where do I find this in Caja, or how do I browse it so I can see what I can delete?

You can browse the partition if it's mounted.

If you're using a desktop, just navigate to the partition.

If you're using a terminal just run the ls command to get a view of each directory. You can use the chdir command to change to each appropriate directory listed (use a context of /path/to/directory to move into directories and use the double period ".." to go back out of directories: example "chdir .." would move you out of a directory). Remember to use the name of the directory without a / symbol or you may move to the /(root) directory. Once you've located the culprit files and/or directories (using ls with a variable like -s), use "rm -rf name of file" to delete and remove the files or directories as needed, but take care to inspect each file before removal.

Hope this helps.

If you run the following, it will tell you what size each sub folders contains sorted largest to smallest. Then you can change directories (using the cd command, I think ReaperX7 mistyped when he wrote chdir) into one of the sub directories and run the command again.

Correcting this problem can depend widely on your partition scheme. Could you post the output of ?

Thanks, Reaper, but what I really need is to know where it is. For example, I thought maybe I could go to /mnt/sda1 and see it, but there is no such folder. What is the "address" that I would need to go to to see sda1? I also looked at /dev/sda1, but I am told that it is not a directory.

sda1 is the one I am concerned about, so that is the one I am posting below.

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 15G 14G 1.1G 93% /

Read the results of the command "man du" with emphasis upon the -x or --one-file-system option.

Well, to simply answer your question, the root folder is: .

Unfortunately, depending on your partition scheme, the full output of the command I mentioned in my previous post is necessary to correct your problem. Because, if you installed Slackware entirely on /dev/sda1, then your options to correct your problem will be different than if you dedicated a separate partition for other directories, such as /home, /usr, /var, /srv, and others...

tharpa[dev]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 15G 14G 1.1G 93% /
/dev/sda3 218G 48G 170G 22% /home
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1 932G 210G 723G 23% /run/media/tharpa/My Passport

In that case, look for any large files that aren't in the /home and /run/media/tharpa directories. Which the appropriate du command would tell you.

BTW, what the devil is Caja? A quick google search didn't point to anything that I thought would remotely apply to this issue.

Your search foo must be weak

Try this - start with the largest directory(s). You can use a similar command descending into the big guys (drop the -d 1 in the dirs)

Sounds like you just need to browse to the 'filesystem', which will show you /.
(That is what/where most file managers call /.)

Will this only give the results for sda1? (That's what I'm looking for.) This looks like this gives the results for my whole hard drive. (Which appears to be called SDA1 is only 14 GB total, so I'm thinking that must be some sort of system partition?