Disk full.. Help needed

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Hi 8go Sd Card is full, and i would like to not have to do a reinstall and delete stuff.

This is currently my system

df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        362M     0  362M   0% /dev
tmpfs           367M   38M  330M  11% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2  7.0G  6.5G   98M  99% /
tmpfs           367M     0  367M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           367M     0  367M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1  240M   21M  219M   9% /boot
/dev/sda1       917G  368G  503G  43% /media/b8aec17f-a626-4780-89db-df9809bccb5e
tmpfs            74M     0   74M   0% /run/user/1000

runing du -hs on my home folder this is what i get

du -hs
725 Mo

I am complilling tvheadend so i have a folder with 1.2Go but the rest is certainly due to some packages i installed when trying retropie. How do i get rid of some of the excess stuff that i do not want…

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Try

cd /
sudo du -h | sort -n

that will tell you the biggest directories, descend one at a time until you find files it is safe to delete.

(you need sudo as only root can ennumerate some system files)

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Or use ncdu for the lazy people.

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Hehe, call me lazy then. Since I heard about ncdu it has been my go-to for CLI file system analysis.

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Thank you for your answer i managed to get back 1.2go. Feels much better now.