My drive is full, and I can't figure out why?

Leseguenni · 11-22-2009, 02:32 AM

Hallo
This morning I got a message that the Editor couldn't save a file because there wasn't enough space.
My drive is about 40 gb. With the drive analyzer from the gnome menu, I figured out that my System used about 7 gb.
That was what I had guessed.
But when typing: df in the terminal. I got the message that over 97% are used. And that was after I had deleted some files so I can at least work.
What could use all that space?
Guenni

EricTRA · 11-22-2009, 02:39 AM

Hello,

Can you do

Code:

du -ch /var

in a terminal to see if it's not in there that something is consuming your space? I've had a similar problem when some program was writing excessively to a log.

Kind regards,

Eric

Leseguenni · 11-22-2009, 06:20 AM

Hi
Thanks. It wasn't excessive logging. More like excessive archiving.
I have "backup-manager" installed. For whatever reason it decided to archive the home and etc folders everyday since Wednesday. Five archives of about 5 gb and five with over 200 mb definitely fill the space. :-)
Well, I deleted them, and hopefully taught the program some manners. So let's hope it'll behave.
thanks again, guenni
p.S.: I couldn't see the directory and archives during the analyzing with the tool. because permissions are set to 700.

Ome_Roel · 11-22-2009, 06:28 AM

Good-afternoon,

With baobab there is also an option to scan your filesystem. You wil get a diagram of your disk usage. There you should get an nice overview of which directory or file is occupying all your diskspace.
(i had the problem with my /tmp directory from the program image magic)

Yours kindly Roel

arizonagroovejet · 11-22-2009, 06:44 AM

Sounds like you've solved the problem, but for reference, I've found ncdu a good way to examine disk space. Especially if you can't get an X session going for some reason. It can be downloaded from http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu but it's also in the Ubuntu repos.

ajlewis2 · 11-22-2009, 09:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arizonagroovejet

Sounds like you've solved the problem, but for reference, I've found ncdu a good way to examine disk space. Especially if you can't get an X session going for some reason. It can be downloaded from http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu but it's also in the Ubuntu repos.

Thanks for the tip. I just got it and love it!

EricTRA · 11-22-2009, 09:17 AM

Good you got it solved and thanks for the feedback.

Kind regards,

Eric