/ full of btrfs meta data?

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/ is 28% full

btrfs fi df .

shows all of the space used

try and do anything on / and get disk full errors

I have no idea how to fix this, the information I can find online helps to clean up disks that some space left?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Matt

2

Hi Matt,

I suspect snapshots taking up most of the space. Use “snapper” to delete those no longer needed…

Regards,
J

3

I think what you’re after to determine the amount of space used is the
following command:

sudo btrfs filesystem usage .

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Good luck.

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4

Using snapper to remove 3 of the 7 existing snapshots seems to have worked?

How they managed to eat up over 20 GB of drive space is confusing.

Thanks,
Matt

5

Hi Matt,

maybe you installed a minimum list of packages first, then later adding lots of stuff? Then the snapshot’d delta would be significant. (all this assuming those were snapshots auto-created during updates / installations)

Regards,
J