ncdu does the trick!
thank u all 4 ur answers.
12G vosk bloat won't ever fit into my available 1G on my 11G MMC:
(debian)czyborra@localhost:~$ df -hl /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1 11G 8.7G 1.1G 90% /
my pip3 install vosk had failed before even starting any install.
my sudo apt install ncdu cost me 0.000981GB.
bloats identified by ncdu -x / are
--- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
99.4 MiB [##########] libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5.11.3
57.7 MiB [##### ] libLLVM-7.so.1
44.7 MiB [#### ] /guile
33.0 MiB [### ] /dri
25.9 MiB [## ] libicudata.so.63.1
23.2 MiB [## ] /perl
15.2 MiB [# ] libx265.so.165
13.4 MiB [# ] libavcodec.so.58.35.100
--- /usr/share/locale
5.5 MiB [##########] /fr
5.2 MiB [######### ] /uk
4.8 MiB [######## ] /ru
4.4 MiB [######## ] /sv
4.2 MiB [####### ] /de
4.0 MiB [####### ] /es
--- /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp
13.2 MiB [##########] /leim
7.8 MiB [##### ] /progmodes
5.3 MiB [#### ] /org
5.0 MiB [### ] /gnus
4.2 MiB [### ] /cedet
3.3 MiB [## ] /net
3.2 MiB [## ] /emacs-lisp
2.7 MiB [## ] /textmodes
1.9 MiB [# ] /vc
1.9 MiB [# ] /calc
1.6 MiB [# ] /international
--- /usr/share/doc
3.5 MiB [##########] /git
2.2 MiB [###### ] /xserver-xorg-core
2.2 MiB [###### ] /xserver-common
1.2 MiB [### ] /gcc-8-base
1.1 MiB [### ] /i3-wm
1.1 MiB [### ] /xterm
1.1 MiB [### ] /dpkg-dev
1.1 MiB [### ] /libdpkg-perl
1.1 MiB [### ] /dpkg
1.1 MiB [## ] /exim4-base
--- /usr/share/icons/Adwaita
11.5 MiB [##########] /cursors
5.1 MiB [#### ] /256x256
3.6 MiB [### ] /48x48
3.5 MiB [### ] /16x16
3.5 MiB [### ] /32x32
3.5 MiB [### ] /24x24
2.5 MiB [## ] /512x512
2.0 MiB [# ] /scalable
2.0 MiB [# ] /96x96
--- /usr/share/qt5
26.1 MiB [##########] /translations
8.3 MiB [### ] /resources
--- /usr/share/fonts
18.5 MiB [##########] /X11
2.8 MiB [# ] /truetype
--- /usr/share/perl/5.28.1
4.6 MiB [##########] /unicore
3.5 MiB [####### ] /Unicode
2.4 MiB [##### ] /Locale
1.1 MiB [## ] /ExtUtils
1.1 MiB [## ] /Pod
1.0 MiB [## ] /CPAN
--- /usr/bin
37.5 MiB [##########] emacs-nox
5.2 MiB [# ] links2
H 4.7 MiB [# ] python3.7m
--- /var/cache/apt
. 128.1 MiB [##########] /archives
45.9 MiB [### ] pkgcache.bin
45.8 MiB [### ] srcpkgcache.bin
--- /var/lib/apt/lists
61.4 MiB [##########]
httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_Contents-i386.lz4
61.4 MiB [######### ]
httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_Contents-amd64.lz4
42.6 MiB [###### ]
httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_binary-amd64_Packages
42.3 MiB [###### ]
httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_binary-i386_Packages
38.6 MiB [###### ]
httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_source_Sources
28.1 MiB [#### ]
httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_main_i18n_Translation-en
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info
1.8 MiB [##########] keyboard-configuration.config
1.1 MiB [##### ] libflite1:amd64.symbols
Op wo 5 mrt 2025 om 15:50 schreef Antonio Russo <aeru...@aerusso.net>:
> On 2025-03-05 07:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
> > my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
> python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use to
> ergonomically present installed candidates to apt purge a few gigabytes?
>
> Start by running ncdu in your root directory to get an idea what is
> using up space.
>
> Things under /var/cache/apt are the apt cache, and can indeed get very
> large.
> You can remove that with with
>
> apt-get clean
>
> Things under /var/lib/apt include package lists. These are small (~100 mb),
> and shouldn't be removed (but you can with `apt-get distclean` if you
> really
> want to trim things down).
>
> You used `pip install`, so you probably have a pip cache that may also need
> to be cleared out. Unclear what you did, since you did not give us the
> exact commands you typed, but you may have pulled in a complete alternative
> python package hierarchy. That might be big.
>
> I run vosk off of a container, and it's ~12G total, so 8.7 actually looks
> lean to me, if it's actually running. Your "bloat" might be the software
> you requested.
>
> Best,
> Antonio
>
