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MauryG5:
Hello to the whole forum, after a period of use, I think we all have the classic problem of filling the "root file" on Linux and the consequent appearance of the famous message that this file must be freed. What do you recommend to do it best? I have read some guides on the internet but they have not helped me much, apart from the classic cleaning of the browser cache I do not know how to proceed to do the cleaning that the system would like ... Obviously I am not referring only to the root file but in general to the whole system, what should be done to clean everything obviously ... I also tried the "street sweeper" application but it doesn't work ...

FlyingBlackbird:
I am not sure having understood what exactly you mean...

Can you please quote the "famous message" you get?

Is your root file system running out of space? Or your boot partition?

If it is the boot partition this is usually caused by the kernel updates taking a lot of space and you have to uninstall them via your package manager
(keep the last two or three kernel updates in case you have boot problems with the most recent kernel)...

MauryG5:
He talks to me about "root file system" in general almost full file system. In the analyzer I saw that the "USR" Directory is the one in red and therefore the main suspect. On Kernels you are right, in the past I have done the removal, I have to do it again now, but apart from the kernel I wanted to understand what else I can eliminate and how ...

xilinder:
@MauryG5
I am not familiar with "street sweeper" on Linux. There is "sweeper" which is part of KDE.

Each Distro of Linux and which desktop you are using have different ways and programs for doing the same thing. Please note which installed system you are using so people with knowledge of that system can help you best.

If you are using only one distro and desktop then simply add that to your forum signature, along with some hardware info. 8)

MauryG5:
I rectify the previous message sorry, the directory concerned is that of the photo, "/" I removed the old kernel but I gained little. How free is that directory? Yes, I don't have much experience on Linux. I started a few months ago. I use Fedora with 16 GB of RAM and in this case a 250 GB SSD hard disk. I'll post the photo of the analysis

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