The upgrade was successful ( the system works) but I can’t finish applying updates & other software because Root is down to 500MB (from 5GB).
Is there any way to easily identify what files can/should be deleted?
The upgrade was successful ( the system works) but I can’t finish applying updates & other software because Root is down to 500MB (from 5GB).
Is there any way to easily identify what files can/should be deleted?
Hi
You need to cleanup the snapshots and balance the device, as root user run the following cronjobs (they may take some time to run);
snapper list |wc -l
/etc/cron.daily/suse.de-snapper
snapper list |wc -l
Did the number from the snapper command decrease?
Then run the following to clean up the btrfs data;
btrfs fi usage
/etc/cron.weekly/btrfs-balance.sh
btrfs fi usage
Check the usage before and after. Again this may take some time to run…
5 GIG is absolute minimum and you would expect to run short on space I consider 20 gig using ext4 and 40gig using the default BTRFS file systems to be minimum useful installs. You can install in a 5 gig if you only use light weight or no GUI
the prompt returned almost immediately and the number (19) didn’t change.
I’d cleaned out some tmp files yesterday and managed to free about 1.5 G so I’m installing updates now. I’ll try the cron jobs again when the updates finish.
I have a 20 G partition. There are currently 21 snapshot directories occupying (uncompressed) over 100 G. 9 directories were created during the upgrade, 4 were created when I applied some updates today, and 5 date from the end of December.
With 20 gig and BTRFS turn off snapper. That simply is not enough room for a functional system using snapper. Alternatively you could mod the snapper rules and make them less aggressive. Do you really need hourly snapshots?? The defaults are way too aggressive in my opinion and set more like a developer might want rather then a regular user. In any case for BTRFS with snapper the recommended partition size is 40 gig
Thank you. I didn’t know it was running (guess I wasn’t looking when it loaded)
I’ve turned off snapper and deleted most of the snapshots. I have disk space again!
Thanks for the help