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Vladz

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[SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

Hello . Im running devuan 6 MATE . I have two hard disk , and i have seperate / and /home partiotions on them . The issue is , when i leave the pc running for several hours (i have sleep mode dissabled) , the space on my /home partition gets filled with "nothing" . Disk usage analyzer and the file explorer dont show what files have taken up the space , while the pc was idling . This happened several times , while i was away so idk what could be causing it . Each time Firefox , Deluge and VLC were open so idk if one of those programs idlling causes the issue . The first time i was able to reclaim the space by running fsck from a live usb . I didnt save the outputs of fsck so idk what it fixed . But now running fsck doesnt fix it and ive been moving files to / or /opt each time lol . What is causing this and how can i fix it ? Tell me what command outputs i should paste here for more info . Thnx .

tux_99

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

Is it really a hard disk or rather a SSD? If it's a SSD it could be that the SSD is becoming defective (worn out). I would do a check with smartctl.

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trinidad

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

Couple things come to mind. Are you using a swapfile instead of a swap partition? Is one OS running and controlling both disks? Are you cloning home?

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RedGreen925

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

Open a terminal and use one of the commands in the page below to find the files. Space on a partition does not get taken up by nothing. Your "solving" it once by using live usb suggests the cache files that accumulate and get deleted on a restart may be part of the problem. Those are in hidden directories and if those programs you use to search for them do not check for those they will appear to be hidden. Try the qdirstat program it definitely shows the hidden files/directories on a partition in a graphical program.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … disk-space

Vladz

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

Thnx everyone for the ideas . i ran du -ah . | awk '$1 ~ /^[0-9.]+[MGTP]/ && ($1 ~ /G/ || ($1 ~ /M/ && $1+0 > 20))' to see what large files where on the partition and found this 78G    ./vladz/.xsession-errors.old . LOL . When i opened it , it was full of: (mate-power-manager:2637): PowerManager-WARNING **: 17:47:08.819: failed to turn on DPMS: DPMS is not enabled . I guess we found the issue , but this is an issue in of itself right ? I deleted the xsession error log , wich freed up the space , but what could be causing MATE power manager to spam errors ? The pc this is running on is an old asf Dell optiplex 745 .

Vladz

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

@tux_99 Its a real hardisk .

Vladz

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

@trinidad its a swap partition and i only have devuan installed . Im not cloning /home

kapqa

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Re: [SOLVED] Hardisk space full , but no files .

you could check with hardinfo2?

https://hardinfo2.org/download

https://ibb.co/mr8vQ63n