I have 10 GB for the root and 30 GB for the home folder. Home folder is 7 GB used up and it shows the root folder's space is 100% in use, of which 70% usage is home folder.
I am unable to install any new software cause of the disk space error. Trying to delete anything I installed, clearing the trash, clears out the space from the home folder but doesn't effect the other one.
/home
as a separate partition, as you're suggesting it won't take up the space from/
. Can you Edit your question with the output ofsudo du -hs /*
,sudo df -h
df -H
into your question. And you better not have / and /home as different partition because I would assume you understand what that means. Deleting stuff from /home frees space from /home but you assume this affects / how exactly? And please explain what you put on / that made it fill up 10Gb. For a plain desktop 10Gb is more than enough.du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
. This will show the 10 largest dirs and files. Maybe you put personal data into / without realizing ;)clearing the trash, clears out the space from the home folder but doesn't effect the other one.
Then it is likely that you do have /home on a different partition rather than as part of /. Which means something else is taking up space on /. The du commands from other will show the still existing largest files, which may help. If those do not then please try the following: