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 No, you're wrong there. I clear it manually (as I explain in my "quick & dirty" post), using this command: sudo mv -v -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb -t /media/<WHEREVER>/debian/jessie/tde-trinity/ I save all my packages so that I can install them manually with dpkg; due to the fact that I must often make do without any Internet connection. There is nothing in this folder. Next suggestion? Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
