On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:45 PM Rick Thomas <rick.tho...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 1, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 2/5/23 02:06, David Christensen wrote: > >> On 5/1/23 06:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On my "new" Bullseye machines the root volume starts to fill up. The > >>> cause seems to be the /usr/lib folder. > >>> On my older Buster (10.13) machine the total /usr directory is 701M, > >>> the /usr/lib folder is 260M > >>> In my /usr/lib folder on Buster is NO /usr/lib/modules folder > >>> > >>> On my Bullseye machines the /usr/lib folder is 2+GB on the machines > >>> that have been operating for a while and 1+G on a machine that has > >>> been operating for a shorter while. > >>> > >>> The cause seems to be the folder /usr/lib/modules# > >>> linams:/usr/lib/modules# du * -sh > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-10-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-11-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-12-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-13-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-15-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-16-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-18-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-19-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-20-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-21-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-22-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-7-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-8-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-9-amd64 > >>> > >>> And > >>> linutr:/usr/lib/modules# du * -sh > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-16-amd64 > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-17-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-18-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-19-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-20-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-21-amd64 > >>> > >>> And > >>> lola:/usr/lib/modules# du * -sh > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-13-amd64 > > >>> 4.7M 5.10.0-19-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-20-amd64 > Did anyone else notice the massive jump in file size here? 4.7M to 309M is a huge increase in file size! > >>> 309M 5.10.0-21-amd64 > >>> 309M 5.10.0-22-amd64 > >>> > >>> Guessing on what I see these are libraries for older kernel versions. > >>> I usually clean up older kernel versions by using > >>> # apt autoremove" > >>> All 3 servers have 1 older kernel version installed according to apt > >>> autoremove. > >>> > > > > Have you tried running also > > apt autoclean > > and > > apt purge > > ? > > > > -- > > .. > > Bret Busby > > Armadale > > West Australia > > (UTC+0800) > > .............. > > Another thing I usually do after doing an "apt upgrade" that installs a > new kernel is: > aptitude -P purge '~o' > aptitude -P purge '~c' > > The "-P" tells aptitude to ask permission before actually deleting > anything. > > Rick > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
