I installed OpenSuSE 13.2 a while ago (about 5 months) and I noticed that the used space on ROOT was growing steadily. I ignored the issue until yesterday, when the free space on root was only 760 MB (from a total of 20GB).
After searching the internet for a while, I concluded that "Snapper" was responsible for that situation.
As far as I can tell, Snapper is a backup system, so it creates periodically "snapshots" that can be used for recovery. Since I never used it in about 3 years of LINUX, I decided that I don't need this application, and I removed it. Result? About 9 (nine) GB free on rood and a visibly faster system. I admit though that my system is no longer a "modern" one, but it's doing its job: Acer Core 2 Duo 2200 MHz, 3GB RAM, 300GB HDD.
If you decide to remove the Snapper, the files created for recovery must also be removed, otherwise you accomplished nothing (except the fact that it will stop growing). So, before you uninstall, you must start Snapper from your program list and there you will find all of the backup files ever created, so you can delete them
After searching the internet for a while, I concluded that "Snapper" was responsible for that situation.
As far as I can tell, Snapper is a backup system, so it creates periodically "snapshots" that can be used for recovery. Since I never used it in about 3 years of LINUX, I decided that I don't need this application, and I removed it. Result? About 9 (nine) GB free on rood and a visibly faster system. I admit though that my system is no longer a "modern" one, but it's doing its job: Acer Core 2 Duo 2200 MHz, 3GB RAM, 300GB HDD.
If you decide to remove the Snapper, the files created for recovery must also be removed, otherwise you accomplished nothing (except the fact that it will stop growing). So, before you uninstall, you must start Snapper from your program list and there you will find all of the backup files ever created, so you can delete them
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