Hi,
My machine telling me that my home directory is running out space,
It is said 95% in usage.
Try to delete the big unwanted files in users (just two user in my machine),
df ing, but the home usage status keep on 95%.
I do appreciate for your advice
Thank you
Hello lulik,
Strange, how much did you remove?
Do you have a separate home partition?
Could you post the output of this command:
df
Also you could try Bleachbit it can detect and remove unneeded files.
I recommend you check the list before deleting the files because Bleachbit can’t know for sure if a file is unneeded.
Hello Edward,
Tanks for your reply.
what I do not understand is, the /home/lulik/ usage is only 8%.
Thank you
Hello lulik,
Well, I think the problem is that your /home/lulik isn’t a partition on your harddrive.
It’s an image on your home partition, do you know why your setup is like this?
I think that when you write files to /home/lulik it doesn’t get written to the lulik.img file but to your home partition.
Or to both, meaning that your /home partition and lulik.img will get filled with the same files.
Could you post the output of this command:
cat /etc/fstab
Best of luck!
Hello Edwards,
Well, I think I begin to understand this.
Yes the lulik.img is an image inside home/
This .lulik.img was created due to I choose to use ‘Encrypted Home Directory’.
After some unused files clean up, the number of usage is changing now.
I just surprised that the number result is different between ‘df’ in the terminal and the number in the ‘System Monitor’ dialog window, a small difference of home usage, 95% for df and 94% for Sys Monitor:)
Thank you
I never used any encryption on my home directories so not sure how it works.
But AFAIK an encrypted folder isn’t on a different partition nor compressed, so he can’t be bigger than your home partition.
So if you need more space you need to resize your home partition.
Could you post the output of this command:
fdisk -l
If you use KDE you can use Konqueror and enable “File Size View” this will show you which files are big.
To do this start Konqueror enter to folder to inspect and click on View->View mode->File Size View.
Best of luck!
sometimes my /home/gnampf/.xsession-errors grows to several gb…
That indicates you are having error in your X system. Maybe a video drive problem. What errors are you seeing?
On 2011-03-19 10:06, lulik wrote:
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> Hello Edward,
>
> Tanks for your reply.
>
> here’s my df
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda7 6.1G 4.4G 1.5G 76% /
> udev 495M 1.8M 493M 1% /dev
> /dev/sda8 8.2G 7.4G 397M 95% /home
> /dev/sda1 40G 34G 5.5G 87% /windows/C
> /dev/sda5 20G 4.4G 16G 23% /windows/D
> /home/lulik.img 39G 2.7G 34G 8% /home/lulik
> /dev/sdb2 9.8G 8.5G 1.3G 88% /media/IBM2
> /dev/sdb3 8.5G 4.8G 3.7G 57% /media/IBM3
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> what I do not understand is, the /home/lulik/ usage is only 8%.
That’s because it is an encrypted home space.
The strange thing is that the image is bigger than the home partition where
it seems to reside. Maybe it has holes.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Thanks for your reply. Actually, I don’t feel any problems with X. It just used to be the main reason why my home partition fills-up every once in a while. So it was meant as a hint to the op. Iirc, it had something to do with strange plasmoids - but I’m not sure at the moment. I’ll tell you when it reoccurs.
Cheers
Sascha
If your X error file is filling up like that you ARE having problems with X in someway. From command line use
less ~/.xsession-errors
to view the contents. Note no editor is going to load a gig+ file
My guess is that you will see the same error line or set of lines repeated over and over. Report the error here and maybe someone will know what the problem is.
Let’s say, I was having problems. There’s nothing right now. As I said, I’ll let you know when it reoccurs.
Hello,
I’d like to thanks to you all who make advice on this threat.
I do appreciate it.
Anyway I should end this threat, the raeson is I just install the last version of openSUSE, mine is 11.4 now.
So I got new one in new hard drive.
Thank you
On 2011-03-21 13:36, lulik wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I’d like to thanks to you all who make advice on this threat.
Threat of what? kidnapping, arson, robbery, murder?
Virus, troyan, rootkit perhaps?
I’m not aware we have helped you on any “threat”.
A thread, yes. >:-P
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)