Why am I missing about 90MB? / Stripping unneeded things out

[fury]

I have a 2gb Sandisk SD card. It's not much, but it's the only one I have at the moment.

I have been working with it for a while with no issues, but last night I ran into an out of space error while doing apt-get upgrade. It was only updating libSDL-mixer, so I was surprised that it had space to download the package list but not install a single package like that.

I checked df and much to my surprise, it shows rootfs at 100% full even though Used is less than 1K-blocks.

I cleared out a few files (deleted quake 3 source, did an apt-get clean) and this is how it is now:

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Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs        1804128 1659960     52520  97% /

Where did the other 91,648 1K blocks go? (I did reboot, and it's about the same, a few hundred K more used)

Money's tight, I don't know when I'll get a chance to get a bigger SD card, so I want to make this one work in the meantime.

I have looked through ncdu to find the biggest users of space

What all is safe to delete out of the following, if not all?

/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/icon-theme.cache -- 73.4 mb (I don't use the high contrast theme, though I did try it once)
/usr/share/locale/everything except the language I'm using -- 147 mb
/lib/modules.bak -- 48.8 mb (presumably left over from an rpi-update)
/root/.rpi-firmware -- 98 mb (are these cache files from the rpi-update?)
/var/lib/apt/lists -- 33 mb (I thought this gets cleared out with apt-get clean)

Anything obvious that I missed?

Thanks in advance

[Jade]

everything you listed can be deleted, but the apt stuff will come back next time you run apt-

[jackokring]

google "inodes linux filesystem"

[JamesRonald]

By default a certain percent of the file system blocks are reserved for root so that root can still logon and do cleanup or such should the system run out of space. You can use sudo tune2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2 -1 to see how many blocks are being reserved. And use sudo tune2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2 -r0 to free the reserved blocks.

[fury]

Thanks! Sure enough, it is reserving 22,912 blocks. I'll let it keep that. Now that I have over 400mb free, I feel like I could compile the whole world