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Author: Ralph Ronnquist
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb
Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do:

# mount -obind / /mnt
# du -sh /mnt/*

so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special mounts
(/proc, /sys etc)

Thenn you'll do
# umount /mnt
to release the bind mount

Ralph.

Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote on 2020-02-13 18:38:
> You fail to mention what was included in 'additional programs' but to
> give you a hint I have a pretty much vanilla but up-to-date Ascii here
> with just LXDE and root partition uses 7.1G.
> May I suggest you traverse into / and look for usage?
> cd /; du -sh *;
> //PG
>
>
> On 2020-02-13 03:26, Owen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> looking to get away from systemd, I'm moving from Ubuntu to Devuan (ascii).
>>
>> The system was installed 10 days ago, all went well and updates and additional pgograms installed well unyil today . . .
>>
>> The / partition was set as 40gb to be safe but today an "apt-get upgrade" failed due to lack of space:
>>
>> I've increased / to 60gb but I was never expecting it to ever get past 10gb.
>>
>> root@nucdevuan:/# df -m
>> Filesystem               1M-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> udev                          7947       0      7947   0% /dev
>> tmpfs                         1594       1      1593   1% /run
>> /dev/nvme0n1p4               60786   39295     18375  69% /
>> tmpfs                            5       1         5   1% /run/lock
>> tmpfs                         6464      93      6372   2% /run/shm
>> /dev/nvme0n1p5               26617     554     24682   3% /home
>> /dev/nvme0n1p2                2960     103      2688   4% /boot
>> /dev/nvme0n1p1                 200       1       200   1% /boot/efi
>> tmpfs                         7967       0      7967   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> tmpfs                         1594       1      1594   1% /run/user/1000

>>
>> "du -s" shows no huge files.
>>
>> "apt-get clean" and "apt-get autoclean" don't highlight anything to remove.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can reclaim 30gb of my disk space please?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in anticipation.
>>
>> --
>> Owen
>> owen@???
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