What is filling up my root volume???
- Thread starter Edward78
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Soldato
Should be that hard to track down using df and du as appropriate rather than some "look pretty but not that useful" gui app.
If media isn't a separate filesystem (which the gui seems to imply) then that would appear to be using most of the space.
If media isn't a separate filesystem (which the gui seems to imply) then that would appear to be using most of the space.
Soldato
Look in /media..... must be images, video etc?
memyselfandi;30483890 said:
I thought media was just what drives/partitions go mounted under...
ncdu 1.10 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help
--- /home/edward78 -------------------------------------------------------------
1.5GiB [##########] /REC
1.3GiB [######## ] /Videos
937.5MiB [###### ] /Pictures
613.9MiB [#### ] /.cache
203.9MiB [# ] /.tor-browser-en
191.6MiB [# ] /.mozilla
167.3MiB [# ] /jdesigner
94.4MiB [ ] /Music
54.2MiB [ ] /Documents
29.9MiB [ ] /.linuxmint
29.2MiB [ ] /.config
17.9MiB [ ] OneKeyFree.exe
17.5MiB [ ] Oneheart.mp3
12.5MiB [ ] /.local
5.1MiB [ ] /.thumbnails
4.8MiB [ ] /.adobe
3.1MiB [ ] /.macromedia
1.4MiB [ ] /.thunderbird
1.4MiB [ ] /.audacity-data
1.3MiB [ ] mozilla.pdf
1.1MiB [ ] /ProtocaseDesigner
Total disk usage: 5.1GiB Apparent size: 5.0GiB Items: 24070
I am not understanding something, media has my user folder then a folder with a document that is a link for my other partition, so how is that filling up root? Sorry, I am dumb I guess...
Soldato
Edward78;30484159 said:
Try running the command you have run above when in /media rather than in you home directory. As to why /media ... look at the image you posted in the first post, why would you not investigate there when it seems to indicate a lot of space used there? Do you have any filesystems mounted under there which may have a pile of stuff in which has been hidden by being over mounted?
It's not that you are dumb, it's that you never ever do any even basic troubleshooting on your own before posting (there must be thousands of sites online which give info on finding out what is using space on a Linux/Unix system for instance) and you never give sufficient information to give any really meaningful answer. If you do have more information then you dribble it out as little as possible at a time making it difficult to provide any assistance.
Soldato
Edward78;30484159 said:
You're in the wrong directory when you ran it.
Try;
Code:
cd / && ncduThen drill down to where the big memory hog is.