[ubuntu-us-mn] Annomalous disk nearly full again / Gnome config lost

[Fred H Olson]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Brian Dunnette wrote:

> On 10/12/2011 09:26 AM, Fred H Olson wrote:
> > It happened again yesterday tho this time it at one point reported
> > zero bytes available.  After deleting some old kernels and rebooting
> > a couple times df reports the more expected values:
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sdb2              7689384   4559348   2739432  63% /
> >
> > Since it happens so seldom therefore making it not very replicatable
> > I just live with it.
> Not sure if it's related to this, but there's a known bug
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bindwood/+bug/427622> in Ubuntu's bindwood
> bookmarks synchronization package that causes its database to take up
> progressively larger amounts of disk space (mine once got to 35 gigs
> before I compacted it...)
>
> To see if this is the case, you can check the file sizes in your
> .config/desktop-couch directory to see if they're using unusual amounts
> of disk space... and if so, you can "compact" the database by opening a
> web browser to the file: .local/share/desktop-couch/couchdb.html
>
> -Brian D.

Thanks Brian but it does not look like that is the problem.
I dont think I am using Bindwood; I checked with Synaptic.

 ls -al ~/.config/desktop-couch    gives\:
-rw-------  1 fholson fholson  543 2010-11-17 11:20 desktop-couchdb.ini

Fred


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