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maybe you can help me.
I am having the same issue, and did all you wrote here.
Here is my terminal output:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs           7.8G  1.5M  7.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           3.2G  2.1M  3.1G   1% /run
/dev/sdb6        29G   29G  418M  99% /
tmpfs           7.8G   16K  7.8G   1% /tmp
/dev/sdb6        29G   29G  418M  99% /home
/dev/loop0      128K  128K     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
/dev/loop3      114M  114M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/13425
/dev/loop1      114M  114M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/13308
/dev/loop2       56M   56M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2409
/dev/loop4       56M   56M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2538
/dev/loop6       62M   62M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1587
/dev/loop5       62M   62M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1581
/dev/loop8       83M   83M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/discord/137
/dev/loop9      163M  163M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/145
/dev/loop7       83M   83M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/discord/132
/dev/loop15      37M   37M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/heroku/4092
/dev/loop12     401M  401M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/112
/dev/loop13      82M   82M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1534
/dev/loop10     165M  165M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
/dev/loop11     255M  255M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/106
/dev/loop14      92M   92M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
/dev/loop19     1.1G  1.1G     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/intellij-idea-ultimate/377
/dev/loop18     884M  884M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/intellij-idea-community/381
/dev/loop21     185M  185M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/postman/181
/dev/loop20     182M  182M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/postman/178
/dev/loop16     878M  878M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/intellij-idea-community/379
/dev/loop22      81M   81M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/robomongo/1
/dev/loop17     1.1G  1.1G     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/intellij-idea-ultimate/375
/dev/loop24      47M   47M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/16292
/dev/loop23      47M   47M     0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/16010
/dev/sdb5       974M  201M  707M  23% /boot
/dev/sdb1       200M   14M  186M   7% /boot/efi
tmpfs           1.6G  136K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

du -hs /*

0	/afs
4.0K	/bin
215M	/boot
0	/dev
34M	/etc
7.2G	/home
4.0K	/lib
4.0K	/lib64
0	/lost+found
0	/media
0	/mnt
594M	/opt
du: cannot access '/proc/4090/task/4090/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/4090/task/4090/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/4090/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/4090/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0	/proc
3.7G	/root
du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/doc': Permission denied
du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
2.2M	/run
4.0K	/sbin
4.0K	/snap
0	/srv
0	/sys
16K	/tmp
11G	/usr
36G	/var
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You posted on a topic that has been closed for 2 years and was related to LVM. Your topic is on a btrfs file system and is different so I split it off.

With btrfs the subvolumes for / and /home share a single btrfs volume. You created that volume as 29G, and since the space is shared when either fills it up the entire space is used. You also have a LOT of snapd loop devices using more than 6GB space in /var/lib/snapd which is part of the OS space. The snapd devices are using almost 1/4 of your total allocated partition space.

I suggest you first run sudo dnf clean all to remove cached data there and free some space.

I also suggest you make the partition sdb6 larger since 29G is barely large enough to install fedora 36 and run it for a short time.

My third suggestion is that you avoid using snap unless you absolutely have to because it eats space as noted. Btrfs snapshots are much more efficient in space usage for backups, and I have never needed any app that required I install snap.

My final comment here.
What in the world have you downloaded or installed into /root that used 3.7G space ?
My system has been running for about 4 years since my last full install and only has 857M used there

# du -hs /root
857M	/root

I suggest you clean out that area as quickly as possible. It will free up 3G or more.

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I downloaded MongoDB, dfinity and Visual Studio code, and making some programs on python.
I tried to search it, but didn´t find how to grow the partition, do you have any suggestions?
I wasn´t able to install MongoDB without snap.
Thnx for the response.

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Also don’t keep old versions of snap packages around. Run

snap list --all

to see what they are. In your case most snap packages have an old version installed in addition to the current version.

To remove an old version of a packages you can for example run

snap remove --revision 379 intellij-idea-community
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It looks like you downloaded as root … and searching for freeing data as your user. If so you also have to make the check as root. That you can access this folders too.

Best is just use your user with sudo for download etc. So you have better control of memory you are using.

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A few commands I use to help me figure out what is filling up space:

Find files in a FS larger than 50 MB

find / -mount -size +50M -exec du -h {} \;

You can change the mount point to the filesystem to whichever you’re searching. You can also change the size, just make sure you have the “+” before it otherwise it will search for the exact size.

Find deleted files but a process is keeping the file handle open

lsof -a +L1 /

Again you can change the file system to whatever. The names will show “(deleted)” at the end and the output will also show you the process keeping them open. When the process get’s stopped it releases the file handle and the disk space is freed.

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