19 Mar
2018
19 Mar
'18
1:09 p.m.
On Monday 19 March 2018 06:00:14 Pisini, John wrote:
There is also ways to look for newest files
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5893748/linux-command-to-check-new-file
s-in-file-system
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:56 AM, William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com>
wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2018 05:26:39 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Am Montag, 19. März 2018 schrieb William Morder:
> > > Okay, so riddle me this: Why does space on my root partition keep
> > > disappearing?
> > >
> > > I first noticed something weird with k3b. I tried to change the theme
>
> to
>
> > > something I liked better, and was asked to make a tmp
> > > folder: /tmp/kde-<USERNAME>
> > > So I did this, but every time I reboot, the same problem occurs, and
> > > I have to go through these steps manually, again and again.
> > >
> > > Then I got the bright idea to create the partition myself by
> > > command-line, anticipating the problem: sudo mkdir
> > > /tmp/kde-<USERNAME> And the first time I did this, it worked; but
> > > after reinstalling my system (some months ago), I have the same
> > > problem again, and nothing works to fix it.
> > >
> > > This, however, is just the tip of the iceberg. Something keeps eating
> > > space on my root partition. I used to have over 1 gb to spare, but
> > > this kept shrinking, even when I wasn't installing anything new. Now
> > > kdf
>
> tells
>
> > > me that I am down to 262 mb of space left on my root partition (on a
> > > fresh reboot); this, I predict - based on past experience - will
> > > gradually shrink down to 0 over a couple days.
> > >
> > > (This, by the way, is why I want to resize my root partition with
> > > gparted, slacko, Parted Magic, whatever, so that I have more room to
> > > wiggle. I used to allot at least 25-30 gb for my root partition; but
>
> then
>
> > > I thought, hey, I've got my system pretty well set up, and won't
be
> > > downloading much of anything new, and I'm very hygienic about
> > > cleaning out extraneous unnecessary crap. The newer distros, though,
> > > use up more and more space on the root partition, just because they
> > > can; due to the fact that hard drives are getting bigger and cheaper
> > > - even though not all of us can afford to go out and buy a new one
> > > right now.)
> > >
> > > And there's more. For example: I tried burning the gparted live iso
>
> image
>
> > > to a CD, and k3b tells me "SUCCESS!"; but when I load the disc,
it
>
> tells
>
> > > me it's empty. Also, when I have been downloading stuff to other
> > > drives (not root), I can watch kdf show my root partition shrinking
> > > at a rate
>
> of
>
> > > 1 mb every few minutes; or when I copy files from one hard drive to
> > > another, the same thing happens.
> > >
> > > There are lots of other little things like this, which seem to point
> > > to the same problem, but you get the general idea. I would like to
> > > blame this on systemd or something like that (and it's true that
> > > systemd
>
> seems
>
> > > to interfere with shutdowns and reboots); but I am trying to keep an
>
> open
>
> > > mind, as it could be another problem.
> > >
> > > All in all, something is eating space on my root partition, but I
> > > can't track down the culprit. My antivirus is up-to-date; my firewall
> > > blocks EVERYTHING outgoing and only allows secure, encrypted
> > > connections on a few ports. I keep watching for some kind of activity
> > > that might show me what's going on, but so far it's a mystery.
> > >
> > > I'm intending to resize my root partition back to 30 gb.
> > > (Everything's already backed up and ready to go.) But if this is a
> > > different, bigger problem, I would like to sort that out first.
> > >
> > > Anybody have a clue what's happening?
> > >
> > > I will be eternally grateful, or at least I'll be grateful for a
> > > pretty long time.
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > guess you never cleared the apt archive:
> >
> > # apt-get clean
> >
> > then you might look at the usual suspects:
> >
> > # di -sch /*
> >
> > or in konqueror, go to / or /home and select "View/View Mode/File size
> > view" ...
> >
> > nik
>
> Other suggestions: the command (I am supposing)
> # di -sch /*
> returns
> bash: di: command not found
>
> What is di? command? software package to download?
>
> And konqueror returns this information:
> "FSView intentionally does not support automatic updates when changes are
> made to files or directories, currently visible in FSView, from the
> outside."
>
> I opened konqueror as root, and am reviewing info now. I have a picture
> of my
> hard drive, but so far nothing unusual. (I've seen this before, but
> haven't done it in a while.)
>
> Bill
>
>
I opened konqueror as root, and it shows details of everything in all my
drives, but for root is just one big amorphous blob.
By the way, the TDE mailing list mods ask that we don't top-post. Of course,
we also go totally off-topic on occasion, so they're pretty lenient. Most of
us try to stick to that rule, so it's easier to follow the threads.
Bill
>
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