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Hello, everyone. Recently I finally decided to update my system, and right after the update ran into a problem: before update baobab showed ~22 GB avaliable space, and after the update it went down to around 8.

Here's some info, that might be relevant:

df output:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs             788700     1976    786724   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p8  53050368 48246568   4054792  93% /
tmpfs            3943496        0   3943496   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p8  53050368 48246568   4054792  93% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p7    998060   133944    795304  15% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1    364544    89768    274776  25% /boot/efi
tmpfs             788696      104    788592   1% /run/user/1000

du -h / shows 23G, du -h /home โ€” 13G. Overall I have 54.3G disk space, so (23+13)/54 doesn't add up to 93%

sudo lsof | grep deleted | wc -l shows 8433 deleted files that are still in use.

I also tried booting with liveUSB and running 'check' on partition via GParted.

I did some research online:

I tried some methods to locate what consumes all the space, but couldn't figure it out. Also, the problem seems to be getting worse (right now baobab shows only ~5GB avaliable space). Can you help me find the source of the problem (and ideally also help me solve it :) )?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I want to thank everyone for the help!

I was finally able to find the issue. Thanks to @[email protected] 's question regarding my filesystem type, I decided to look into it.

I use btrfs, and this command showed me, that I have a lot of snapshots made by apt.

$ sudo btrfs subvolume list -s /         
...
ID 318 gen 2617038 cgen 2566262 top level 5 otime 2024-02-13 06:59:10 path @apt-snapshot-release-upgrade-jammy-2024-02-13_06:59:10

It was probably possible to determine how much space each of them was occupying, but I decided to simply delete them all and be done with the issue. So I installed apt-btrfs-snapshot and run delete-older-than 0d.

As a result, I now have 29 Gb and no backups, which is fine with me.

This answer on askubuntu was useful