Disk full for unknown reason - BTRFS partition filled up with garbage data
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On my Debian Linux laptop a couple of days ago I got my 23GB root EXT4 partition full (probably I installed more software than I expected).
Since I have plenty of space in my BTRFS home partition, 466GB of which 400GB available, I moved the contents of /usr/share/doc into /home/share/doc, and I created a link /usr/share/doc -> /home/share/doc. The size of this doc directory was around 2.4GB.
After this change, the system has been working correctly for the past 24 hours.
All at once I got the KDE menu bar and the desktop environment disappear, with only the applications' windows still open. I switched to the command line, and with df -h I found out that all the 466GB of my home partition are used.
With tree --du -h . from /home, I get "4.8G used", a realistic figure.
So, who is right? df or tree? Where do the remaining 460GB come from?
Since the doc directory I copied is still 2.4GB, I suspect that moving it and creating the link is not the reason of my problem.
How can I fix this and get a stable system back?
Debian 9.5
Dell Precision 7720
home directory: BTRFS
/ directory: EXT4
filesystems disk btrfs
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On my Debian Linux laptop a couple of days ago I got my 23GB root EXT4 partition full (probably I installed more software than I expected).
Since I have plenty of space in my BTRFS home partition, 466GB of which 400GB available, I moved the contents of /usr/share/doc into /home/share/doc, and I created a link /usr/share/doc -> /home/share/doc. The size of this doc directory was around 2.4GB.
After this change, the system has been working correctly for the past 24 hours.
All at once I got the KDE menu bar and the desktop environment disappear, with only the applications' windows still open. I switched to the command line, and with df -h I found out that all the 466GB of my home partition are used.
With tree --du -h . from /home, I get "4.8G used", a realistic figure.
So, who is right? df or tree? Where do the remaining 460GB come from?
Since the doc directory I copied is still 2.4GB, I suspect that moving it and creating the link is not the reason of my problem.
How can I fix this and get a stable system back?
Debian 9.5
Dell Precision 7720
home directory: BTRFS
/ directory: EXT4
filesystems disk btrfs
asked 4 mins ago
Pietro
1245
doesdu -schx /home/*show any other useful information?
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1 min ago
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On my Debian Linux laptop a couple of days ago I got my 23GB root EXT4 partition full (probably I installed more software than I expected).
Since I have plenty of space in my BTRFS home partition, 466GB of which 400GB available, I moved the contents of /usr/share/doc into /home/share/doc, and I created a link /usr/share/doc -> /home/share/doc. The size of this doc directory was around 2.4GB.
After this change, the system has been working correctly for the past 24 hours.
All at once I got the KDE menu bar and the desktop environment disappear, with only the applications' windows still open. I switched to the command line, and with df -h I found out that all the 466GB of my home partition are used.
With tree --du -h . from /home, I get "4.8G used", a realistic figure.
So, who is right? df or tree? Where do the remaining 460GB come from?
Since the doc directory I copied is still 2.4GB, I suspect that moving it and creating the link is not the reason of my problem.
How can I fix this and get a stable system back?
Debian 9.5
Dell Precision 7720
home directory: BTRFS
/ directory: EXT4
filesystems disk btrfs
asked 4 mins ago
Pietro
1245
On my Debian Linux laptop a couple of days ago I got my 23GB root EXT4 partition full (probably I installed more software than I expected).
Since I have plenty of space in my BTRFS home partition, 466GB of which 400GB available, I moved the contents of /usr/share/doc into /home/share/doc, and I created a link /usr/share/doc -> /home/share/doc. The size of this doc directory was around 2.4GB.
After this change, the system has been working correctly for the past 24 hours.
All at once I got the KDE menu bar and the desktop environment disappear, with only the applications' windows still open. I switched to the command line, and with df -h I found out that all the 466GB of my home partition are used.
With tree --du -h . from /home, I get "4.8G used", a realistic figure.
So, who is right? df or tree? Where do the remaining 460GB come from?
Since the doc directory I copied is still 2.4GB, I suspect that moving it and creating the link is not the reason of my problem.
How can I fix this and get a stable system back?
Debian 9.5
Dell Precision 7720
home directory: BTRFS
/ directory: EXT4
filesystems disk btrfs
filesystems disk btrfs
asked 4 mins ago
Pietro
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asked 4 mins ago
Pietro
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asked 4 mins ago
Pietro
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doesdu -schx /home/*show any other useful information?
– Alex Stragies
1 min ago
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doesdu -schx /home/*show any other useful information?
– Alex Stragies
1 min ago
does
du -schx /home/* show any other useful information?– Alex Stragies
1 min ago
does
du -schx /home/* show any other useful information?– Alex Stragies
1 min ago
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du -schx /home/*show any other useful information?– Alex Stragies
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