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Fedora is systems, right? The easiest way to gain some (temporary) space is to clean out the journal and whatever logs you don't need. It can grow quite big.
Will shrink it to something manageable. This will buy you some time to clean up until the journal grows again.
Also, clearing the apt cache will probably help free up some root partition space
Your root partition where packages are stored and all the logs and transactional databases might be full even if your home directory has tons of free space.
I don't think cleaning the apt cache will help on Fedora. 🙂 But the journal tip is good, just had a look at mine and it was a whole GB wasted.
Duh... Fedora not Ubuntu/Debian/Et al.
It's been a while since I have run a redhat derivative... I think that was either the last iteration of mandrake or the first iteration of mandriva.
And the journal isn't garbage persay, it's a bunch of logs and whatnot that can be useful in certain diagnostics... Especially with op running all those snap packages. But in this case, clearing it is probably a better option then not clearing it