[SOLVED] Home folder full & can't figure out why (MBs not matching up)

CPUnltd · 2012-01-25 05:35:03

/home (as a partition) is 5GB and completely full... however, XFE, emelfm2, and PCManFM all see the home "folder" as being between 1.3GB and 1.8GB full... I am under the impression that I have a ghost file SOMEWHERE that even root can't properly detect, as it's not making any sense. What tools can I use to figure out why my /home partition is full?

Note: XFE, when checking the properties of the home partition vs home folder, it also shows the partition as full and the contents of the folder as 1.5GB or so. I can't shut down the computer, as I'm transferring large files from one flash drive to another (and my /tmp is on another partition and is 1% full out of 3.8GB. The comand 'df' returns that the partition is full as well... all tools, whether accessed via root or user, are telling me contradicting things: partition full, folder 40%(ish) and it's driving me mad! Any and all help is, and will be, GREATLY appreciated!

SOLUTION:
installed ncdu from repos, used command 'ncdu /home' and found which folder was the culprit... I had a large transfer going overnight that wasn't going when I got back in the morning, so the disk wasn't at 100% when I got back (not sure why any space was taken up by the transfer since the tmp folder is NOT in /home and the transfer wasn't to or from /home, but that may be an issue for another day).

Last edited by CPUnltd (2012-01-25 20:37:44)

skunktrader · 2012-01-25 05:45:20

trash?
lost+found?

I've used ncdu /home to identify space pigs before

Last edited by skunktrader (2012-01-25 05:47:31)

CPUnltd · 2012-01-25 08:55:29

trash was empty, lost+found could be a possibility... what is ncdu?

EDIT:
figured out what ncdu is, can't believe I'd never seen this program before!!! will be using it to track down the issue tomorrow! THANKS!!!

Last edited by CPUnltd (2012-01-25 08:58:32)

karol · 2012-01-25 10:00:25

Post the output of 'df -h' and 'df -hi'.

CPUnltd · 2012-01-25 20:21:08

interesting program... definitely helped me find out why my system was so full on my home comp (and where space was being wasted on my work comp! Can pretty much label this one solved since I figured out where all the space went...

karol · 2012-01-25 20:27:20

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … y_Programs has some other, similar apps :-)

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#1 2012-01-25 05:35:03

[SOLVED] Home folder full & can't figure out why (MBs not matching up)

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