I've noticed several posts about this same topic, but found no reasonable solution. This post suggests deleting the files, but I want to avoid that since I'm using apache and that same post says that it will break apache. I ran
sudo du -h --max-depth=1
this is the result I get
du: cannot access './run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
du: cannot access './run/user/121/gvfs': Permission denied
2.3M ./run
du: cannot access './tmp/.mount_jetbraP4UBzE': Permission denied
104K ./tmp
6.5M ./libx32
16K ./lost+found
15M ./sbin
5.7G ./usr
4.0K ./cdrom
16M ./etc
0 ./sys
0 ./dev
618G ./var
13M ./bin
4.0K ./lib64
195G ./home
4.0K ./srv
5.8M ./lib32
936K ./root
277M ./boot
1.2G ./lib
du: cannot read directory './proc/2824/task/2824/net': Invalid argument
du: cannot read directory './proc/2824/net': Invalid argument
du: cannot read directory './proc/2825/task/2825/net': Invalid argument
du: cannot read directory './proc/2825/net': Invalid argument
du: cannot access './proc/5070/task/5070/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './proc/5070/task/5070/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './proc/5070/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access './proc/5070/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0 ./proc
7.3G ./snap
14G ./opt
7.1T ./media
4.0K ./mnt
7.9T .
so then I went to /var and
/var$ sudo du -h --max-depth=1
142M ./cache
60K ./tmp
2.3G ./www
92K ./spool
6.4M ./backups
4.0K ./crash
4.0K ./mail
4.0K ./metrics
612G ./log
3.2G ./lib
4.0K ./local
228K ./snap
4.0K ./opt
617G .
so than I tried /var/log
/var/log$ sudo du -h --max-depth=1
208K ./apt
68K ./cups
24K ./samba
4.0G ./journal
40K ./mysql
8.0K ./hp
4.0K ./gdm3
506M ./nordvpn
4.0K ./dist-upgrade
20K ./libvirt
92K ./apache2
28K ./unattended-upgrades
2.7M ./installer
4.0K ./speech-dispatcher
612G .
edit: by request here it is
/var/log$ sudo du -xh -d 3 /var/ | sort -h -r | egrep -v '*K|*M'
617G /var/
612G /var/log
4.0G /var/log/journal/1e5573225229470a9199ad4e005b6533
4.0G /var/log/journal
3.2G /var/lib
2.5G /var/lib/snapd
2.3G /var/www
2.2G /var/www/pixel
1.3G /var/lib/snapd/snaps
Now I'm stuck. I have the same problem when I open Disk Usage Analyzer.
How can I free up space on the system? Is this a false positive? In other words it seems like it's reading the free space as used space. Is this a bug?
man journalctl
for how to read the log. Clearly, your system is shouting at you (via the log) that there are problems you must fix./var/log
folder as well. It shows only 4.3GB in the.journal
as 59 items, but you appear to have more files outside of that folder adding up to the other 608GB. There might be many.gz
files in there.sudo du -xh -d 3 /var/ | sort -h -r | egrep -v '*K|*M'
please.