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 -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
