Free space in /root is 1/3 of the one in personal storage

[rogerology]

As seen on the following screen capture http://imgur.com/UAaad35, the free space available on /root is less than a third of the one available on personal storage, and probing the drives with Partview gives still another figure. Ffconvert outputs an error message and stops working because it only detects the smallest free space. How come /root has such small free space? How can I change this? I can't use 'resize personal storage' because I have installed Puppy on a USB flash drive such that personal storage is an entire partition, so the program doesn't even starts.

[Semme]

Check the properties on that mozilla folder.. There's no doubt someones cache needs clearing.

[rogerology]

Check the properties on that mozilla folder.. There's no doubt someones cache needs clearing.

I don't use Mozilla, I use Chromium instead. Another program I use is Bleachbit, to wipe caches, thumbnails, temp files, etcetera on a regular basis. The screencap was taken after wiping 75 Mb using Bleachbit.

Any other suggestion?

[Semme]

Then why's there a Mozilla folder in your capture?

If you think it's Chromium, check ~/.cache or /opt.

Here, let this remove most of your guesswork:

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du -h --max-depth=1 /

Mind your options and BB becomes obsolete.

[rogerology]

Then why's there a Mozilla folder in your capture?

If you think it's Chromium, check ~/.cache or /opt.

Here, let this remove most of your guesswork:

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du -h --max-depth=1 /

Mind your options and BB becomes obsolete.

Thanks for your help.

Mozilla is there because Precise Puppy comes with it. I don't use it so It can't produce temp files on its own, and even if it could, I guess Bleachbit would take care of it.
I have switched to lxpup, thinking that maybe LXDE would be easier to handle. Lxpup is based on Slacko, but I've got the same problem I had with Precise: Only about 600 Mb seem to be available for my programs.
writing your suggestion on the terminal gives this output:

sh-4.1# du -h --max-depth=1 /
1.3G /usr
303M /root
751K /var
27G /mnt
0 /sys
1016K /tmp
4.0K /dev
86M /lib
6.7G /initrd
2.6M /etc
232M /lost+found
12K /install
180M /opt
5.6M /bin
du: cannot access ‘/proc/10652/task/10652/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘/proc/10652/task/10652/fdinfo/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘/proc/10652/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘/proc/10652/fdinfo/4’: No such file or directory
0 /proc
5.8M /sbin
36G /
sh-4.1#

[Semme]

I'm guessing Chromium's in /opt, it's cache where I said it is.

Open *under the hood* and remove some of this.. watch /roots`size drop.

Check what's in lost'n found- you can most likely toss it.

The rest looks OK.

Maybe try'n experiment with a save file next hop..

[rogerology]

I'm guessing Chromium's in /opt, it's cache where I said it is.

Open *under the hood* and remove some of this.. watch /roots`size drop.

Check what's in lost'n found- you can most likely toss it.

The rest looks OK.

Maybe try'n experiment with a save file next hop..

I erased everything except the passwords stored within Chromium, and it dindn't make much of a difference. Have a look at these screen captures:http://imgur.com/gwtwOI7,BuZJ1r1#1
The first image was produced before wiping, and the second one after. The terminal has two tabs, with the output of the command you showed me, swapping between both tabs makes it easy to spot the differences, and are almost non existent, albeit there are some in /root, /var, /tmp, /dev, and /initrd,

[Semme]

The goal here is still- how to have more room in /root, correct?

Gimme a few.. I'll have to test prior to posting my suggestion..

[rogerology]

The goal here is still- how to have more room in /root, correct?

Gimme a few.. I'll have to test prior to posting my suggestion..

The goal is to make the various Gbs of free space located on my USB Flash drive available for programs to use. At the moment Ffconvert only picks up the space in /root, so increasing this space would be one way of sorting it out.

Thanks again.

[Semme]

This sounds like your ticket.. and I think it's gonna take two partitions on that flash drive of yours.

Granted we can automate the mount bit, I'm just not sure what kinda time I'll have this weekend.

I'll try'n give a modified version of this a shot too with time..