On Monday 19 March 2018 19:42:36 Nick Koretsky wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:28:24 -0700 > > William Morder <doctor_contendo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > About a month ago, I had something like 2.2 gb free in my / (sda1) > > > > partition; then it went down to 1.5, then to 1 gb, then to 800 mb, > > > > 600, 400, 200, and now I am at about 165 mb, and sometimes it goes > > > > down to 0. In all this time, I haven't installed anything new, or > > > > done anything different. > > > > > > I may have missed that but it seems no one have asked it in the thread > > > - did you reboot you system during this time or is it a continuous > > > uptime? > > > > Yes, I did reboot. I probably was rebooting my system every few days, > > just because my Firefox seems to be interfering with my network > > connection. And while I was learning the differences in a Debian system > > (in contrast to Ubuntu), I also rebooted constantly, because I was > > constantly messing up my system. For the past few months, though, my > > system has been fairly stable, and I haven't been downloading and > > installing new packages. > > > > Right now the problems are: 1) my vanishing partition, 2) why Firefox > > messes up my network connection, and 3) minor bugs. > > > > Nowadays I might go a week or two without rebooting, unless I end up with > > no space left on my root partition. > > 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. 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
