VenusOS Root Filesystem Full, Free up disk space

Q&A and troubleshooting
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Hi All,
I searched this question all over but seems like I don’t have anyone with similar question. I have installed some other packages over time, but the root partition is full now. I run the resize command but it just says already completed. I have 60gb available but not being used. Any guidance on how to increase root partition size would be appreciated.

Device is a Cerbo-GX

root@Cerbo:/# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 1.1G      1.1G     14.8M  99% /
devtmpfs                454.5M      4.0K    454.5M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   503.0M    920.0K    502.1M   0% /run
tmpfs                   503.0M    504.0K    502.5M   0% /var/volatile
/dev/mmcblk1p5            1.1G    581.0M    452.8M  56% /data
/dev/mmcblk0p1           59.5G      1.0M     59.5G   0% /run/media/mmcblk0p1
tmpfs                   503.0M    920.0K    502.1M   0% /service
root@Cerbo:/# /opt/victronenergy/swupdate-scripts/resize2fs.sh
resizing /dev/mmcblk1p3
resize2fs 1.45.7 (28-Jan-2021)
The filesystem is already 327680 (4k) blocks long.  Nothing to do!

root@Cerbo:/# uname -a
Linux Cerbo 5.10.109-venus-17 #1 SMP Wed Nov 20 10:47:56 UTC 2024 armv7l GNU/Linux
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Dunno exactly what the possibilities are in Venus linux, but i do know that this is not the right command to grow a partition. growing a root partition is pretty dangerous and done offline, but you can not take the soldered mmc out so that makes growing a root partition in an Cerbo impossible.
you may be able to store logs and packages on the external memory tough.

Maybe you can start by cleaning up some old log files ?

The 60GB is on a external memory card i see?

similar issue here

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Many posts in the old community, now archived. Typically happens with large Node Red installs or 3rd party add ins that do not keep log files tidy. I thought that there had been some recent mods to Venus OS to try and keep this under control.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acommunityarchive.victronenergy.com+root+full&oq=site%3Acommunityarchive.victronenergy.com+root+full&sourceid=silk&ie=UTF-8