Huge decrease in space on /

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I was reading this thread, running out of disk space on /root directory, and decided to check my usage. The space on / had decreased by 3.1G from earlier in the day. I tracked the increased usage down to core dumps in /var/lib/systemd/coredump. The dumps had the forms:

#core.drkonqi.1000.6c37bee16f1b4378aeac7d4131839649.30565.1502811870000000959ab06f96905c24

and

#core.single.1000.8887f571c24d4fe6b1bbe377321c92ec.10048.1502902588000000.xz

I deleted them all and recovered the lost space on /. The dumps dated from yesterday and today. From the zypper history I see that systemd was patched this morning and on the 5th. There’s an earlier version of systemd available. I’m extremely reluctant to mess with systemd. Any suggestions?

TIA

#2

Ah, further research tells me that those dumps are not from systemd, but rather systemd handles coredumps from applications and puts the core files in /var/lib/systemd/coredump. I looked through the output of journalctl and found that something called
“tracker-extract” is dumping core. I have Gnome installed. Is that a Gnome and KDE process? Or just a Gnome process? How should I handle this?

TIA

#3

Hi
Run the command (as root user);


coredumpctl

To confirm when and where :wink:

You can disable all the tracker stuff if you want via System Settings -> Search and Indexing.

#4

Thanks, Malcolm. I fired up Gnome and in Settings unchecked all the search location boxes. Haven’t seen a recurrence of the problem.