Storage and application issue

[honest robin]

I am getting full storage message can t open certain apps like bleach bit and chrome

Command i tried
Isudo apt autoremove --purge
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt clean
journalctl --disk-usage
sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=7d
Sudo apt update
Sudo apt upgrade

[mystic surge]

please open and maximize a terminal.

paste in :
lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,MODEL,LABEL,SIZE,FSSIZE,FSTYPE,FSUSED,FSAVAIL,MOUNTPOINT

and show the result clearly if u can screenshot it via the included screenshot tool, or use a camera in landscape mode

tag me when u have it

[honest robin]

@mystic surge did my best i cerebral palsy so I shake

[mystic surge]

minor typo on your part

it's single dash not double dash

[mystic surge]

all one line

exactly as you see it here

then after you press enter on that, it should give nice result. >> then go to start menu and type screenshot

the screenshot tool will come up. use it to take a windowed screenshot of the terminal result and then do 'copy to clipboard'. then log into discord on that computer and paste it into this chat

tip: you may log-into discord even using Firefox, or any modern web browser

[honest robin]

@mystic surge desktop won't load

[mystic surge]

please type it like this

@honest robin

[honest robin]

???

[mystic surge]

i had said before already, all on one line

[honest robin]

Got it

[mystic surge]

ok show it now please, the whole screen photo

@honest robin

[honest robin]

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

ok i see it

pls do cd / && ls -a timeshift

@honest robin

[honest robin]

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

do cd /timeshift

then one at a time:

ls snapshots-boot

see if any stuff there

ls snapshots-daily

ls snapshots-hourly

ls snapshots-monthly

ls snapshots-ondemand

ls snapshots-weekly

I have a suspicion too many damn snapshots were saved, and that took up all your room

[honest robin]

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

bit blurry but it seems it found four or five folders in your snapshots-daily folder

one is red but i cant see

the good news is you can restore from here

[honest robin]

Hangon

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

one moment

cd snapshots-daily

rm -rf 2025-09-05and press the TAB key to autocomplete that name.

then hit enter

then do for the 6th of september:
rm 2025-09-06and press the TAB key to autocomplete that name.

then do ls && df -h and show please

@honest robin sorry i just had to make a correction to the 2nd line i put above

cd into the snapshots-daily folder

once in it, it'll show that in the prompt, that you're logged to that folder.

then do the next line as i have corrected it.

[short flicker]

please type

timeshift --liist

[honest robin]

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

i cant see. too blurry

and move camera slightly to the left

also do df -h now

will hopefully show more free space

[short flicker]

@mystic surge he has about 56gb disk, and identified as mmcblk, must be one of those very cheap laptops with pretty much SD card for a drive.... eMMC drive or however they're called.

List timeshift snapshots and delete 1 or 2 of them, that should get it to boot properly

[honest robin]

I shake too much sorry @mystic surge

[short flicker]

@honest robin please type

timeshift --list

[mystic surge]

looking better

good.

now press the up arrow many times.. 10 to 20 times

until u get to this command:

and repeat that command please.

then show.

just hang on Maniak.

i think this cleared up a shit-ton of room. I want to see the result

[short flicker]

ok, ok, take your time

[honest robin]

Just did restart standby

[short flicker]

I think lsblk -f gives you about the same info though

[mystic surge]

it gives fsused in %. i dont like that. plus it does not say FSAVAIL i believe

[honest robin]

Desktops still ant loading

[short flicker]

it does

[mystic surge]

i still prefer my way

[short flicker]

ok

[mystic surge]

i guess go back to root shell as you were

try lsblk -f as shown abovee

[mystic surge]

make sure the ext4 partition shows plenty of FSAVAIL value

then from there, perhaps maniak can help you restore a timeshift to get your pc working normally again

[short flicker]

can you do

df -h

[honest robin]

@mystic surge

@short flicker let try @mystic surge thing then go from there

[short flicker]

alright

[mystic surge]

54 used. 56 total

so you managed to free up 2 Gigs of space

@short flicker you want to take over - let them restore the latest timeshift from the commandline

[short flicker]

I don't think we need to restore yet, just free up some more space, FSAVAIL is still 0

So I'll wait for

df -h

from @honest robin

[short flicker]

ok, next is

timeshift --list

[honest robin]

@short flicker

[mystic surge]

ohh you're right

i saw this one time. what a disaster!

i guess clean out more old snapshots

[short flicker]

Did you type

timeshift --list

no typos?

[honest robin]

@short flicker

[short flicker]

Ok, next type

timeshift --delete

press 0 and enter

After it's done, type

df -h

again

[short flicker]

ok, just wait until done

[honest robin]

Hey this is my work laptop will I lose files by deleting snapshots @mystic surge @short flicker

[short flicker]

You won't loose any user files that are in your home. We're removing some old restore points

[honest robin]

Ok thought I asked, it's done

[mystic surge]

df -h

[short flicker]

ok, do

df -h

again

[short flicker]

Well that's 163 mb.... not much

Repeat the

timeshift --delete

press 0 and enter

and when done

df -h

again

[honest robin]

Should I just delete all of them?

[short flicker]

No.... what if you delete all them and it still won't boot?

[mystic surge]

try tune2fs

[honest robin]

Ok

[short flicker]

We'll delete 1 or 2 more and that should give you enough space to boot

[mystic surge]

sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmc whatever

sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmcblk0p2

[short flicker]

he's already root

[mystic surge]

may work without sudo in root shell, anyway

then df -h after that

[honest robin]

We at 4.7g now

[short flicker]

that should be plenty

try rebooting

[mystic surge]

as in "available" in filesystem space on partition 2?

[honest robin]

Yes

[mystic surge]

u did the tunefs thing?

[honest robin]

No I reboot it

[mystic surge]

did u do the command i wrote about tune2fs yes or no?

or u just threw out more old snapshots?

[short flicker]

I'm guessing he just deleted 1 more snapshot

[mystic surge]

did it boot successfully @honest robin

[short flicker]

@honest robin If you get to the desktop, go to timeshift - settings - schedule and show us

[honest robin]

No

[short flicker]

what does it show?

[mystic surge]

i would recommend just restore a fairly recent snapshot n see if it boots.

sudo timeshift --list
sudo timeshift --restore --snapshot "snapshot_index_number"

[honest robin]

@short flicker

[short flicker]

maybe just wait a minute? eMMC drives are slow

this is after or before login screen?

[mystic surge]

they are pretty garbage indeed.

shouldn't take more than 2 full minutes to reach the desktop tho

tbh , a boot should take like.. 30 seconds - right the the final desktop

even with crappy emmc flash being used as an excuse of a hard drive

[honest robin]

Should I do sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmcblk0p2 im back at root

[short flicker]

You should probably do

timeshift --restore

if this won't boot in 2 minutes

[mystic surge]

put 1

wait

yes, 1

[honest robin]

Alright done

[short flicker]

wait until it replaces files

[honest robin]

It s done

[short flicker]

then reboot if it doesn't do it for you

[honest robin]

Alright im waiting

[mystic surge]

...

could've bought a new pc from the store and got home by now

did it boot??

[honest robin]

Fuck this laptop

[mystic surge]

boot the live usb up.. rescue your files.. upload them to google drive/ OneDrive/ Dropbox..

then just.. do whatever u want. reinstall fresh.

idk what messed up the install so bad.

all i know is anything dealing with kernels, wifi, firmware, third-party drivers, sound, desktop environments, network layers.. all of that should be done with high caution and experience or guidance

cuz it can lead to bad consequences if done wrong

[honest robin]

Im just gonna harvest the Hdd i can't even get to Google drive to upload them

[mystic surge]

Bleachbit is a good tool, but must be used with guidance especially

especially in its "as root" mode

[mystic surge]

ur thing is an emmc. u cant take it out

use a second usb stick as a holding tank

booting with the live stick to gain desktop access

[honest robin]

No but I can recover my files with a sata reader

[mystic surge]

eh..

if u can figure that out sure

i dont think ur thing has a SATA drive.

it said emmc. which is soldered-on storage

[honest robin]

Shit

[mystic surge]

good thing your home folder isn't encrypted.

at least - HOPE NOT

[short flicker]

Does it not boot after restore?

[honest robin]

If I use the usb mint installer and access the files

[mystic surge]

that's what I said yes

[honest robin]

No

And I got coding files and my notes

Im removing more snapshot

@mystic surge @short flicker

[mystic surge]

typo there

[mystic surge]

look this

[honest robin]

@mystic surge @short flicker it ran

[mystic surge]

neatt

[mystic surge]

this what did the trick?

now fix your dang schedule in timeshift. save 1 weekly and uncheck ALL other time options

and make sure it's not saving userhome or roothome either

[honest robin]

yes

then went back to boot hit clean then repaired packeges updated grub

[mystic surge]

"clean" on what?

some purple screen at boot time in recov mode?

[honest robin]

On the boot menu In recovery mode

[mystic surge]

aight

yeah just fix ur timeshift schedule fr

once weekly. retaining 1. that's it

on a mere ~60 gigs of storage, u can't afford anything else to use massive space up

what do you get for lsblk -o name,fstype,fssize,fsused,fsavail now?

@honest robin

[honest robin]

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

about 84% used up

you could probably cull litterally all the timeshift snapshots now.

from the graphical Timeshift app

and I can help you use Bleachbit if u want

but probably if u simply have a lot of FAT (and believe me, they're fat bastards!) Flatpaks, there's nothing much else can be done

[honest robin]

yea

[mystic surge]

eg:
flatpak list

[honest robin]

lets do it later?

[mystic surge]

also avoid using the root user / root shell

for sanity and safety's sake.

[honest robin]

new isue onl y works in recovery mode and extermal monitor isnt working

@mystic surge

[mystic surge]

yike

make a new ticket for this please

[honest robin]

Roger

[mystic surge]

and include the system information in it

inxi -Fxxxzr result in that post