On Monday 19 March 2018 20:11:24 Felix Miata wrote:
William Morder composed on 2018-03-19 20:00
(UTC-0700):
Nick Koretsky wrote:
Well, i mean does reboot reclaim that lost space?
You see one of a
possible reason for a "vanished" space are open deleted files. If some
daemon misbehave with cache or imporper log rotations, etc...
It does reclaim some of the lost space, yes - hence one reason for
rebooting, when I run out of space - but there is still a creeping issue
of space disappearing in increments of a couple mb at a time.
Maybe a look at /etc/fstab and output from
mount | egrep -v "cgroup|rpc|tmpfs|^sys|on /dev|on /proc|on /sys|on /var" |
sort would help us help you.
Yes, and I do appreciate all the help, and thanks for your patience.
mount | egrep -v "cgroup|rpc|tmpfs|^sys|on /dev|on /proc|on /sys|on /var"
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/<sdc1> type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sdd1 on /media/<sdd1> type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/<sdb1> type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/sdf1 on /media/<USER>/4b4696d9-05d4-423f-acfa-707f7148f245 type ext3
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdg1 on /media/<USER>/30A3-239E type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=lower,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
(Note: Changed user name, and names of mount points, for security reasons.)
I would just like to resolve this issue before I move on to resizing my
partition, and installing Devuan. If this is something bigger than just
temporary files (and it seems to me that it is), then creating a bigger root
partition will not solve my problems.
Like I mentioned before, I had about 2.2 gb of free space on that partition
about a month ago, then it gradually shrank down to 165 mb. Something is not
right there, I feel.
Bill