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Thanks, Larry! That did it -- I found a couple things but nothing that jumps out.I do see an old docker. container under /var/lib but that doesn't explain why Ihave this problem.
I the root partition on an SSD drive? I've seen odd problems on Windoze machines, where the user erased a very large file, but the TRIM function hadn't yet released erased blocks marked for reallocation. The symptom was that the SSD continued to act like it was out of available space until something triggered the SSD TRIM function, when it magically showed plenty of space available. My guess(tm) is that something similar can happen in Linux. The fix is to manually run:
sudo fstrim / -v
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/fstrim.8.html
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/fstrim.8.html
If this works, you should probably look into why the automatic
TRIM function in Linux is not running or working. TRIM (discard)
is run when booting the machine. I thought that fstrim was also
run from cron, but apparently not. See:
systemctl status fstrim systemctl status fstrim.timer
I confess that I haven't seen an SSD with this problem on a Linux
machine, so this is all speculation on my part. However, I don't
think it hurts to run fstrim the next time you erase big files or
try to do useful work with an almost full SSD.
If you try the fstrim command on a conventional hard disk drive,
you'll get an error message something like "The discard operation
is not supported".
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sudo fstrim / -v
That should be:
sudo
fstrim / -av
so that all the partitions (including swap) are trimmed.
These look useful:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=315625
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=288532