Hello, everyone. Recently I finally decided to update my system, and right after the update ran into a problem: before update baobab showed ~22 GB avaliable space, and after the update it went down to around 8.

Here’s some info, that might be relevant:

df output:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs             788700     1976    786724   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p8  53050368 48246568   4054792  93% /
tmpfs            3943496        0   3943496   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p8  53050368 48246568   4054792  93% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p7    998060   133944    795304  15% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1    364544    89768    274776  25% /boot/efi
tmpfs             788696      104    788592   1% /run/user/1000

du -h / shows 23G, du -h /home — 13G. Overall I have 54.3G disk space, so (23+13)/54 doesn’t add up to 93%

sudo lsof | grep deleted | wc -l shows 8433 deleted files that are still in use.

I also tried booting with liveUSB and running ‘check’ on partition via GParted.

I did some research online:

I tried some methods to locate what consumes all the space, but couldn’t figure it out. Also, the problem seems to be getting worse (right now baobab shows only ~5GB avaliable space). Can you help me find the source of the problem (and ideally also help me solve it :) )?

  • @Still@programming.dev
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    45 months ago

    because you’ve updated be tween releases you may have a large cache of file for apt

    you may want to run sudo apt-get autoclean to remove old files that aren’t in the repo (replaced with new versions)

    apt-cache stats will tell you info about the cache

    • @andnekon@programming.devOP
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      15 months ago

      Running sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get autoremove was the first thing I tried.

      I am not sure, how do I interpret output of apt-cache stats?

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      Total package names: 126893 (3,553 k)
      Total package structures: 122145 (5,374 k)
        Normal packages: 81989
        Pure virtual packages: 2797
        Single virtual packages: 22954
        Mixed virtual packages: 2708
        Missing: 11697
      Total distinct versions: 101553 (8,937 k)
      Total distinct descriptions: 180829 (4,340 k)
      Total dependencies: 609988/159599 (14.8 M)
      Total ver/file relations: 32564 (782 k)
      Total Desc/File relations: 49757 (1,194 k)
      Total Provides mappings: 50727 (1,217 k)
      Total globbed strings: 239740 (5,895 k)
      Total slack space: 65.4 k
      Total space accounted for: 47.7 M
      Total buckets in PkgHashTable: 196613
        Unused: 109956
        Used: 86657
        Utilization: 44.0749%
        Average entries: 1.40952
        Longest: 17
        Shortest: 1
      Total buckets in GrpHashTable: 196613
        Unused: 103120
        Used: 93493
        Utilization: 47.5518%
        Average entries: 1.35725
        Longest: 8
        Shortest: 1