Storage problems on 20.04...

MrT10001

My Redmi Note 7 is down from around 23Gb free to now 1.8Gb free on storage being used by the system. Is any one else having this issue? Is there an update cache I can clear easily? (I do the updates through the installer and I am on the RC channel.) I have 3 files of my own on it, all the rest is the available apps.

kristatos

Hi, on my Volla (60 GB):

System Reserved: 4,2 GB
Used by system: 4,4 GB
Free space: 51,4 GB

I'm on devel updating every day via wifi.

MrT10001

@kristatos Yep, that looks normal. I want to see if it is a bug before I reinstall.

Ian

@mrt10001 Isn't there a clear cache option somewhere on the installer?

Edit.

Tools -> Clean cached files

But is this for the phone or the PC?

MrT10001

@ian Theres the Wipe data option which is what I will try later.

kugiigi

@mrt10001 Can you check /var/log/syslog?
Sometimes that file gets spammed with errors/warnings and build up its size.

MrT10001

@kugiigi That looks like the issue. There are multiple log files that have built up. I would like to delete them, but it is how and how to do it correctly. One side of all operating systems that annoys me as a user. I can understand as a developer or system admin, but as a user they take up space unnecessarily and should be deleted over time. I lost a good SSD to pFsense logging on my VPN router which filled it up, but the constant writes took it's life. All I needed to have done was tick a box to disable logging and it would have lived.

So is there any way to remove the logs from:

var/log/journal

var/log/lightdm.log

MrT10001

Reinstalled ticking the "wipe" button the installer, all back to normal.

kugiigi

@mrt10001 Usually those logs are cleared automatically. Possibly there's an undetected bug in your device. Next time maybe try to see the contents of the biggest log files

MrT10001

@kugiigi I will monitor it since I have done a fresh install. If it raises issues again, I will look at manual deletions through terminal. My OnePlus 5T doesn't have this issue which I put down to using the installer to update, which I didn't do with the Redmi Note 7 (loads of failed updates).