Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

Keith Clark keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Fri Mar 5 21:53:24 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:26 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 01:16 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:11 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> ..
> >> Might take awhile, but you could try:
> >> $ ncdu
> >> and choose / & let it go through the whole drive
> > 
> > No can do.  No space to install.
> > 
> > I think it is time to start from scratch here.  Just not sure if I want
> > to install Ubuntu again after this.
> 
> I think that's why Amadee stated:
> "Install it NOW so that it is accessible the next time you run out of
> space." when he suggested it. :-)
> 
> I still think that you might find it to be an sbackup issue. Perhaps try
> the /tmp folder?
> 
> $ $ sudo du /tmp | sort -nr | head -10
> 
> 
I had to delete another 50 GB of data to get my machine to boot.  I
installed ncdu and ran it.  No unexpected big files found.  Only 262 GB
of 448 GB, yet Nautilus reports only 41.2 GM free on "File System".

Something is wrong here, not just sbackup.

Keith







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