How to free up some disk space on my Linux machine? One cause of invisible disk space usage on Linux is if a program creates a log file, and writes a lot of log messages, and something else deletes the log file The file isn't deleted until all programs close it, but now it doesn't have any name so you can't find it In this case a reboot would free the space and there's probably a tool somewhere to find these files
Root drive is running out of disk space. How can I free up space? If you want to recover space on the root partition, moving usr to a different partition is a possible solution From comments: Preserve the permissions when copying, i e better use the command line if you are unsure what your file manager will do The right way to this, is to mount a new filesystem to usr or use mount --bind
hard drive - How do I free up more space in boot? - Ask Ubuntu In this situation one cannot remove old kernels using apt-get because the fscking boot partition has no space left on device One can do this using "dpkg -P" followed by cleaning up the corresponding entry in boot (to free space) and var lib initramfs-tools (the initrd image will not be generated)
What do I do when my root filesystem is full? - Ask Ubuntu Now this is only a point of note, since disk caching doesn't reserve that space in memory; it would yield the used ram space to other programs that need it when they request it (that's just how disk caching works), but it's a needless use of resources loading 14 5gb of deleted files into ram every time I booted Hope it helps!
Reducing space consumption by Ubuntu on Windows 3 will changing to the "Ubuntu" app take less space on disk? Let's get that main question handled first -- Not really Changing the app itself that you installed from doesn't have any direct impact on the disk space Indirectly? Probably But only because backing up and restoring a WSL distribution has the side-effect of "compacting" it
What is the safest way to clean up boot partition? - Ask Ubuntu Finally, sudo apt-get autoremove to clear out the old kernel image packages that have been orphaned by the manual boot clean Suggestion, run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade to take care of any upgrades that may have backed up while waiting for you to discover the full boot partition