Something is trying to fulfill my storage

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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Once I tried to clean the docker mess and it works , after 1 hour I faced the problem again, I don’t know what is it exactly, would you please give me a lil help?

jetson@jetson-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1  113G  108G  115M 100% /
tmpfs           3.8G  172K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           1.5G   35M  1.5G   3% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           763M  108K  762M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda1        58G  101M   58G   1% /media/jetson/FB44-A0BA
jetson@jetson-desktop:~$
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You might want to log in as root, e.g., “sudo -s” or “sudo -”. Then start at / and drill down into the largest directories with:

# From the current location:
ls -lS . | head -n 20

# From a specific location:
ls -lS /some/where | head -n 20

This sorts by size. If you want a more convenient “human” size with things like KB and MB instead of raw bytes, use the “-h”:

# From the current location:
ls -lSh . | head -n 20

# From a specific location:
ls -lSh /some/where | head -n 20

This does not tell you what directories contain though since a directory entry is more or less the metadata. If you have time, then you might try something like this which looks into subdirectories:

# From this location:
du -a . 2>/dev/null | sort -n -r | head -n 20

# From a specific location:
du -a /some/where 2>/dev/null | sort -n -r | head -n 20

Some files are expected to be large, and so unless you know what a file is doing, I would not recommend deleting it.

One place to start is in the log file directory, “/var/log”. Make sure it isn’t just a log of errors. If it is, then you need to find out what the error is before deleting.

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Thank you for you great help.

root@jetson-desktop:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1  113G  109G     0 100% /
tmpfs           3.8G  172K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           1.5G  171M  1.4G  12% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           763M  112K  762M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda1        58G  101M   58G   1% /media/jetson/FB44-A0BA
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo du -xh --max-depth=1 /var
sudo du -xh --max-depth=1 /var/log
4.0K	/var/crash
60K	/var/spool
4.0K	/var/mail
860K	/var/nvidia
83G	/var/log
2.2G	/var/cuda-tegra-repo-ubuntu2204-12-2-local
4.0K	/var/metrics
4.0K	/var/opt
12M	/var/snap
1.7G	/var/lib
4.0K	/var/local
30M	/var/cache
84K	/var/tmp
894M	/var/cudnn-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu2204-8.9.4.25
4.4M	/var/backups
88G	/var
16K	/var/log/installer
104K	/var/log/apt
4.0K	/var/log/private
4.0K	/var/log/gdm3
83G	/var/log
root@jetson-desktop:~# find /var/log -type f -name "*.gz" -delete
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo du -xh --max-depth=1 /var/log
16K	/var/log/installer
88K	/var/log/apt
4.0K	/var/log/private
4.0K	/var/log/gdm3
83G	/var/log
root@jetson-desktop:~# journalctl --vacuum-time=10d
Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /run/log/journal.
Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /run/log/journal/5dbfb12414a3456d9014d88183e338b1.
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo du -xh --max-depth=1 /var/log
16K	/var/log/installer
88K	/var/log/apt
4.0K	/var/log/private
4.0K	/var/log/gdm3
83G	/var/log
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo rm -rf /var/log/user.log
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo du -xh --max-depth=1 /var/log
16K	/var/log/installer
88K	/var/log/apt
4.0K	/var/log/private
4.0K	/var/log/gdm3
83G	/var/log
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo rm -rf /var/log/syslog
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo rm -rf /var/log/messages
root@jetson-desktop:~# sudo du -xh --max-depth=1 /var/log
16K	/var/log/installer
88K	/var/log/apt
4.0K	/var/log/private
4.0K	/var/log/gdm3
6.3G	/var/log
root@jetson-desktop:~# systemctl restart syslog.service
root@jetson-desktop:~#
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My vino-server generates nearly 100 Go of syslog per day

This one worked for me :

sudo apt remove vino