On 17/11/18 20:38, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Now have 77% free. I've pruned carefully, I hope. 15GB free still seems too little but scything through everything would not be wise.
Bev.
Mangled that. 77% full. 17GB free (now) That's what I meant. Thanks, Steve.
Bev.
Glad I could help.
I now suggest you try the other tools like Baobab (on the menu as "Disk Usage Analyser") and Bleach Bit. Baobab will show you which directories hold the most files. BleachBit may be able to get rid of some cr@p for you.
bin, sbin, usr, lib, opt - Installed Programs live here. To reduce used space, uninstall unnecessary programs etc - config files. shouldn't take up much space. Probably best to leave. home - all files belonging to your users, pictures, documents, some config files etc. boot - kernel images, bootup files etc. run, dev, proc - here be dragons. Temporary files, system files. Don't touch. tmp - in theory these are all temporary files. There shouldn't be much in here. If there is, say. var - all sorts of things live here. Some you can touch, some you shouldn't. There is scope for log files in /var/log to get huge. You could delete old ones. /var/tmp should be temporary files like /tmp. Probably best to leave the rest of /var alone.
Hope that helps Steve