Date: 2010oct8 Update: 2026oct1 OS: Linux Q. Linux: How to free-up some disk space A. Package installer clean The first thing to do is to remove the package installer's temporary files. On Fedora:

dnf clean all

On Debian-based:

apt clean

Journal You can reduce the size of the journal (system log). See how much space its currently using:

journalctl --disk-usage

Example output:

Archived and active journals take up 2G in the file system.

Then reduce it. Put the size you want the journal reduced to here:

journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

BleachBit Try BleachBit. It can remove languages you aren't using and many other things. Debian users have localepurge but BleachBit does more. Install it with:

dnf install bleachbit

And run the GUI from X Window as super user:

# bleachbit &

Remove the GUI If you are desperate for space, you can remove the GUI! If you are using GNOME, these commands will remove it and all its dependencies (which is a lot). I have done this for an OS update in a space-restricted VM. After the update and an `apt clean` I reinstalled GNOME. Fedora:

dnf remove gnome-session

Debian-based:

apt remove gnome-session