my root partition has been skirting full for months.

 

I found a 1.4 gb snap for kde support.  kf6-core24

 

supposedly deleteing a snap warns me if there are dependencies.  actually I deleted a couple of programs i installed that did not like and never use first, but it took the delete command without complaint.

 

going to the snapd directory shows the file is not there.

 

i emptied trash (did not see any large files in trash).

 

that graphical display of used space shows it gone from \var\lib\snapd\snaps

 

 

no change for a while, but now my root partition is 98% full per df -k

 

this was 20 minutes ago, i think it takes a while to reclaim space from deleted files, but this long?  from system monitor, there is no task doing disk writes except intermittantly, but maybe cleanup isn't included (that would be a MAJOR deficiency if so).

 

I'm guessing somebody will tell me I have to reboot, but why did none of the instructions on the internet say that?  and since I was allowed to delete all the snaps that should imply none were in use, so why would a reboot be needed?