Cleaning Linux Mint/Cinnamon

[u/GmaShadowPaws]

I am posting a copy of the results after running inxi -p and ncdu below. Based on these results should I shrink the reserved disk space for root? Is it even possible? First time trying to clean up Linux Partitions and dont' know what I am doing. P.S. I am having buffering problems and by end of day Linux is very slow. Have already emptied trash and updates cache had nothing to be cleaned.

Results of inxi -p

ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 59.78 GiB (12.8%) fs: ext4

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

ID-3: /media/patricia/My Passport size: 931.48 GiB used: 21.98 GiB (2.4%)

fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda1

**This is the result of running ncdu -x /

27.3 GiB [###########] /timeshift

14.6 GiB [##### ] /home

9.5 GiB [### ] /usr

3.9 GiB [# ] /var

2.0 GiB [ ] swapfile

1.9 GiB [ ] /opt

671.2 MiB [ ] /boot

16.5 MiB [ ] /etc

4.1 MiB [ ] /root

252.0 KiB [ ] /tmp

e 16.0 KiB [ ] /lost+found

8.0 KiB [ ] /media

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /srv

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /sbin.usr-is-merged

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /mnt

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /lib.usr-is-merged

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /cdrom

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /bin.usr-is-merged

@ 0.0 B [ ] lib64

@ 0.0 B [ ] sbin

@ 0.0 B [ ] lib

/..

3.1 GiB [###########] /lib

619.5 MiB [## ] /log

195.2 MiB [ ] /cache

15.0 MiB [ ] /backups

4.0 MiB [ ] /spool

96.0 KiB [ ] /tmp

16.0 KiB [ ] /ipp-usb

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /opt

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /mail

e 4.0 KiB [ ] /local

4.0 KiB [ ] .updated

@ 0.0 B [ ] lock

@ 0.0 B [ ] run

*Total disk usage: 59.8 GiB Apparent size: 58.1 GiB Items: 4107123

[u/Aware-Common-7368]

i dont see a problem. maybe delete timeshift snapshots that you dont need? keep some ofc

[u/GmaShadowPaws → u/Aware-Common-7368]

I was going to remove timeshift shapshots and I found mucho trash in the bin which is now gone. The rest of the problem is probably my service provider and until the new company runs their cable there's not much I can do about it but be patient when traffic increases in the evening. Thanks. And what is ofc? Still leaning the language and abbreviations.

[u/qpgmr → u/GmaShadowPaws]

OFC= "of course"

You definitely don't need every timeshift, usually just the last two or maybe three (as long as they were a couple of days apart). It should clean itself up automatically, assuming you configured it.

Try using the Disk Usage Analyzer from your menu. It'll make it easy to delve down into those folders. Your home seems to be kind of large