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djseomun

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[SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

Just now, I realized that my root partition is almost completely full. Normally, I have about 2.8G free. Now, that number dwindled down to 66M.

The output of df -h is below.

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             4.8G  4.8G   66M  99% /
none                  1.9G  184K  1.9G   1% /dev
none                  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm

Doing pacmac -Scc didn't do anything this time.

How do I find out what is eating up the space?

Edit

ncdu did the trick. I used the feh script from the Wiki to automatically change my background. I don't know why, but it had created a crapton of .FEHBG*.png files that collectively added up to almost 3.0G. Everything is back to normal.

Last edited by djseomun (2009-11-06 13:25:21)

grey

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

Try gdmap (graphical disk map).

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mrunion

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

Check and see if your kernel.log and message.log are huge! mine started pulling that because of 10-20 messages per second about the CPU temp being normal.

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SoleSoul

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

or run ncdu (available in AUR, highly recommended), which is a command line tool.
Run it on the root folder and it will list your filesystem from the most space consuming to the lease.
This way I found out that my /var/log was 4GB...

tavianator

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

du -sc /* | sort -nr

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

/var/log is the usual cupilt, so start there.

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perbh

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

also check /var/cache/pacman.
With as little as 4-odd gigs for the root filesystem, you just _may_ want to clear the cache completely (pacman -Scc)

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

or run ncdu (available in AUR, highly recommended), which is a command line tool.
Run it on the root folder and it will list your filesystem from the most space consuming to the lease.
This way I found out that my /var/log was 4GB...

Moving into [community] a while ago!

$ pacman -Ss ncdu
community/ncdu 1.6-1
    An NCurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command

FYI, adding the -x switch will keep it in the filesystem of interest, i.e. it won't skip to other partitions.

Last edited by graysky (2009-11-05 21:05:37)

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Stromblad

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

If you use gnome its possible you may have been deleting files as root which puts them in a hidden root trash folder

SoleSoul

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

Moving into [community] a while ago!

Good to know! thanks.

djseomun

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Registered: 2008-10-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Free Space Suddenly Gone?

Thanks to all. ncdu was immensely helpful, and I'm glad it was less than 66M