recently installed SSD gets full {solved}
recently installed SSD gets full {solved}
Hi all,
today I found out that the SSD I recently installed is already occupied to 97% - which is at least not possible from my usual activities.
Its a 256GB drive and before I installed this SSD I was using a 60GB SSD which still had some spare memory (and still use it).
How to find out what/who consumes so much diskspace?
Thanks.
today I found out that the SSD I recently installed is already occupied to 97% - which is at least not possible from my usual activities.
Its a 256GB drive and before I installed this SSD I was using a 60GB SSD which still had some spare memory (and still use it).
How to find out what/who consumes so much diskspace?
Thanks.
Last edited by jpg153 on 15. Jul 2017, 11:27, edited 1 time in total.
Regards Gruß
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Re: recently installed SSD gets full
You don't say what you store on your SSD. Let's assume it is mounted as /ssd. Type:and provide the output. .
Please also provide the output of following commands:
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du -h --max-depth=1 /ssd
Please also provide the output of following commands:
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cat /etc/fstab/
lsblk -o model,name,size,fstype,mountpoint
df -h|grep ^/dev
Re: recently installed SSD gets full
Hi Didier,
its my "home"...
I doubt that I have files amounting to 225GB...at least I could not identify files/directories of that size or which in sum would make it that big..
Thanks.
its my "home"...
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jpg[~]$ du -h --max-depth=1 /home
33G /home/backup
0 /home/.Trash-1000
1,9M /home/ftp
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jpg/.cache/webkit' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jpg/.cache/xfce4' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jpg/.cache/xine-lib' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
192G /home/jpg
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.config/Thunar' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.config/pulse' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.config/xfce4/desktop' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.config/xfce4/xfwm4' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.dbus' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.gnupg' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis '/home/jupaga/.gvfs' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
1,1M /home/jupaga
5,7M /home/smbgast
225G /home
jpg[~]$
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jpg[~]$ cat /etc/fstab
PARTUUID="22e7fbee-01" / xfs defaults,relatime,discard 1 1
PARTUUID="759dcbc5-05" /home xfs defaults,relatime,discard 1 2
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro,comment=x-gvfs-show 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw,umask=00 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
#PARTUUID="16de707e-05" /home2 xfs defaults,relatime 1 2
#PARTUUID="16de707e-01" /5gbstore ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
PARTUUID="22e7fbee-02" /salix32 ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
PARTUUID="22e7fbee-05" /reserve xfs defaults,relatime 1 2
jpg[~]$
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jpg[~]$ lsblk -o model,name,size,fstype,mountpoint
MODEL NAME SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
OCZ-VERTEX2 sda 55,9G
├─sda1 18,8G xfs /
├─sda2 10,8G ext2 /salix32
├─sda3 1K
└─sda5 26,4G xfs /reserve
Samsung SSD 750 sdb 232,9G
├─sdb1 1K
└─sdb5 232,9G xfs /home
DVD-ROM SH-D163B sr0 1024M
DVDRAM GH22NS70 sr1 1024M
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jpg[~]$ df -h|grep ^/dev
/dev/root 19G 8,3G 11G 44% /
/dev/sdb5 233G 226G 6,9G 98% /home
/dev/sda2 11G 2,8G 7,3G 28% /salix32
/dev/sda5 27G 33M 27G 1% /reserve
jpg[~]$
Thanks.
Regards Gruß
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Re: recently installed SSD gets full
Really?jpg153 wrote:I doubt that I have files amounting to 225GB...at least I could not identify files/directories of that size or which in sum would make it that big..
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jpg[~]$ du -h --max-depth=1 /home
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33G /home/backup
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192G /home/jpg
✀-----
225G /home
I'd look into /home/jpg...
Re: recently installed SSD gets full
Hi Didier,
certainly I will!
But, how to find out if there are hidden or maybe corrupted files which are either that big or do report or wrong size?
From what I have seen so far I could not find files/directories which are that big - but I will for sure have another look
and a more exact calculation on that.
What concerns me is simply, I had the 60GB SSD and a 70GB HDD before and the 70GB was replaced with the 256GB SSD.
So even if I now have Virtual box installed with some images and some videos filed (I know them!) on that drive, I still
doubt it would be more than 100GB...
I will give you more details later this evening.
Thanks.
certainly I will!
But, how to find out if there are hidden or maybe corrupted files which are either that big or do report or wrong size?
From what I have seen so far I could not find files/directories which are that big - but I will for sure have another look
and a more exact calculation on that.
What concerns me is simply, I had the 60GB SSD and a 70GB HDD before and the 70GB was replaced with the 256GB SSD.
So even if I now have Virtual box installed with some images and some videos filed (I know them!) on that drive, I still
doubt it would be more than 100GB...
I will give you more details later this evening.
Thanks.
Regards Gruß
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Re: recently installed SSD gets full
To investigate:
You can filter the big files using grep.
Use the du command as root to avoid most of the "kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung" messages.
You can also use the find command. For instance:"man find" will tell you more.
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du /somedir -h --max-depth=1 # to find big directories, including the hidden ones
ls -lha /somedir # to find big individual files, including the hidden ones
# then if /somedir/somesubdir is big:
du /somedir/somesubdir -h --max-depth=1
ls -lha /somedir/somesubdir
# and so on.
Use the du command as root to avoid most of the "kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung" messages.
You can also use the find command. For instance:
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find /home/jpg -size +500M
Re: recently installed SSD gets full
Hi Didier,
well with
I found (as expected) the reason...
Which means ".cache" eats up my disk space.
It contains almost 3 million objects in "thumbnails".
Now
1. where do they come from?
2. how to clean them up?
3. how to avoid getting in the same situation again?
or, is that normal?
Thanks.
well with
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du -h --max-depth=1
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jpg[~]$ du -h --max-depth=1
45M ./.adobe
du: das Verzeichnis './.cache/webkit' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis './.cache/xfce4' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
du: das Verzeichnis './.cache/xine-lib' kann nicht gelesen werden: Keine Berechtigung
146G ./.cache
It contains almost 3 million objects in "thumbnails".
Now
1. where do they come from?
2. how to clean them up?
3. how to avoid getting in the same situation again?
or, is that normal?
Thanks.
Regards Gruß
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Re: recently installed SSD gets full
You need to look closer, including running "du -h --max-depth=1 /home/jpg/.cache" and so on.
1. These files come from something you have installed or downloaded. Check their dates to see since when they are there, and if that matches the date when you installed or downloaded something that could be related.
2. You are supposed to know how to remove files, aren't you?
3. It depends on the answer to question 1.
1. These files come from something you have installed or downloaded. Check their dates to see since when they are there, and if that matches the date when you installed or downloaded something that could be related.
2. You are supposed to know how to remove files, aren't you?
3. It depends on the answer to question 1.
Re: recently installed SSD gets full
Hi Didier,
indeed, its something I installed which does eat up diskspace - its Thunar!
Everytime I open a folder containing images (from camera via USB or from filed images on disk) Thunar creates the preview images which are stored in
My standard setting in Thunar is the "symbol view".
Maybe I need to change that or use a different file manager, as previewing photos is a must have.
I will mark this solved later on...
But, any other way to prevent the disk is getting filled up again?
Thanks.
indeed, its something I installed which does eat up diskspace - its Thunar!
Everytime I open a folder containing images (from camera via USB or from filed images on disk) Thunar creates the preview images which are stored in
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.cache/thumbnails/normal/
Maybe I need to change that or use a different file manager, as previewing photos is a must have.
I will mark this solved later on...
But, any other way to prevent the disk is getting filled up again?
Thanks.
Regards Gruß
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Re: recently installed SSD gets full
That would be strange behavior for thunar, what is the size of your images/photos?
Curious, because i've never encountered a problem like that.
If needed, but not sure if it would make a difference, these are good alternative FM's with a GUI:
pcmanfm
spacefm
xfe
Curious, because i've never encountered a problem like that.
If needed, but not sure if it would make a difference, these are good alternative FM's with a GUI:
pcmanfm
spacefm
xfe