The volume "filesystem root" has only 1.3 GB disk space remaining

DNI_R

A little less than a year ago when i installed Solus, i gave root partition 30 GB of disk space. My home directory is separate. Now i have no idea what could i safely delete from root partition to get some space back. For example is it safe to delete eopkg cache through the terminal command? Or are there any other strategies to maintain disk usage in root partition?

JoshStrobl

DNI_R I'd suggest at least the following:

sudo eopkg dc to clear our eopkg cache
sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M to clean up journals
sudo solbuild dc -a if you build packages using ypkg and solbuild, to clear out all caches except solbuild images
Install ncdu and do sudo ncdu / to get some insight into what is taking up the most space on your system

brent

JoshStrobl I, too, trimmed off about 3 GB.
And NCDU is a nifty tool.
It shows I have a lot of stray garbage ( 1.5GB) in /.cache. How do I go about culling all these folders in /.cache? There's a lot of folders in there.
Thanks for anything. And thanks for the commands. I ran them all.

DNI_R

JoshStrobl Thank you very much. These advises freed up to 10 GB of space in root partition.

CraigMatze

Thank you Josh. Have Solus for 2 years and first time cleaning the journalctl saved 5 GB. 🙂

Justin

brent Depends on what they're for, what are the biggest offenders?

viyoriya

apart from journalctl i do this on weekly basis in teminal

============ clear Recent files ===================

rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbe*
touch ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

============ clear logs ============================

su 
> /var/log/wtmp
> /var/log/btmp
> /var/log/lastlog
> /var/log/eopkg.log
dmesg -c

brent

Justin Hi Justin. Of 1 GB for /.cache the biggest offenders (folders) are:
thumbnails at 100MB
tracker at 30MB
weird folders like .fr-xHr3pQ and .fr-EYbpKC which take up around 60MB and appear to be eopkg folders
Got about 20 "keyring-XXXXX" files that take up 0.

All else in the low kbs.
I couldn't kill the thumbnails because they would reproduce like tribbles anyway.
The word "cache" always implies "temp" to me but a lot of this looks necessary.
Your opinion whenever. Not a pressing matter.
Thanks for the response.

Justin

Yeah cache is nice to have for most things. 🙂

brent

Thanks for indulging a layman's curiosity.
NCDU does not have a --help info page but it has a MAN page. Spotting storage anomalies, if one knows what is normal or not, is it's primary mission. It can be set to monitor certain folders so a watchdog function if so inclined. The tools around here fascinate me...

Justin

I only use ncdu to spot large folders, see where my space is taken up. If you want to ensure ncdu just reads / and not any mounted drives, run ncdu -x /.

youswer

I use bleachbit.

goldencut

Not using Solus ATM so can't check but does Solus have cron? Could the 'journalctl --vacuum-size=100M' and 'eopkg dc' be scheduled to run weekly, or even daily?

kyrios

goldencut Nope, there is no cron in Solus since it uses systemd and thus has systemd timers.

For info : The journal size is defined in /etc/systemd/journald.conf look for SystemMaxUse= then reboot or restart the systemd-journald service for the change the take effect.

Also although it doesn't harm, it is not recommend deleting the cache on daily basis or very frequently since the aim of a cache is to faster the system.

alexxtasi

Hi all

In my case the message is :

... and when I press 'Examine' I find that the problem is not the eopkg log but the old versions of Third Party software:

There are many directories remained there from older versions !

~ $ ls -l /var/eopkg/
total 168
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Μαΐ  16 16:30 anydesk
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Δεκ  24 16:43 anydesk-6.0.1-25
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Μαρ  16 17:29 anydesk-6.1.0-26
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Μαΐ  16 16:30 anydesk-6.1.1-27
... < many other old version here !! > ...

I suppose I can remove them manually, but is there a command to do this at once ?
regards

Harvey

alexxtasi I suppose I can remove them manually, but is there a command to do this at once ?

sudo eopkg dc