Root partition is full

[devNull]

Newbie error....

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df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev            16232240        0  16232240   0% /dev
tmpfs            3249944     2896   3247048   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  28660644 27779212         0 100% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 931178576 26455320 857348256   3% /home
tmpfs            3249940        0   3249940   0% /run/user/1000

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84M     /boot
172K    /tmp
16K     /opt
16K     /media
4.0K    /srv
48K     /root
16K     /lost+found
25G     /var
4.0K    /mnt
4.0M    /etc
1.9G    /usr

How to I find out where the usage is specifically? This is a headless installation. I have few paackages in use. So something intended for /home must be in the wrong place.

Thanks for any help

[devNull]

A lucky guess... but I purged old docker images... now I see

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df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev            16232240        0  16232240   0% /dev
tmpfs            3249944    11088   3238856   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  28660644 11458168  15721260  43% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 931178576 26457836 857345740   3% /home
tmpfs            3249940        0   3249940   0% /run/user/1000

Is it possible to redsitrubute, non-destructively storage from /home to / using gparted? I probably should double / size.

[donald]

NCDU (NCurses Disk Usage) is the perfect tool for this it is a front end for the DU command.

[p.H]

How to I find out where the usage is specifically?

You can see that /var contains 25 GiB. Repeat the search to find out what takes most space in /var and so on.

Is it possible to redsitrubute, non-destructively storage from /home to / using gparted?

Yes, but it requires to unmount /home and move its whole contents towards the end of the drive.
Other options:
- reduce /home without moving it, create a new partition and mount it where needed
- move a heavy directory into /home and replace it with a symlink pointing to the new path
- move the data from a heavy directory to another directory in /home and "bind" mount the new directory on the original one

PS: Consider using LVM for your next installation. It makes distributing disk space much easier.

[devNull]

NCDU (NCurses Disk Usage) is the perfect tool for this it is a front end for the DU command.

NCDU is amazing. Thanks for the tip!

Is it possible to redistribute, non-destructively storage from /home to / using gparted?

Yes, but it requires to unmount /home and move its whole contents towards the end of the drive.
Other options:
- reduce /home without moving it, create a new partition and mount it where needed
- move the a heavy directory into /home and replace it with a symlink pointing to the new path
- move the data from a heavy directory to another directory in /home and "bind" mount the new directory on the original one

PS: Consider using LVM for your next installation. It makes distributing disk space much easier.

Thanks for the ideas. I'm leery of repartitioning (though with Windows, I do this often), but the linking option will help me move 70% of my present root storage onto /home.

[PsychoHermit]

I would boot a live dvd and resize home giving some of the space to /. You have plenty of disk space you just need to re-distribute some of it.

--glenn

[gkterry]

I agree 28G is a bit small for root