Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Keith Clark]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 01:32 +0100, Xandros Pilosa wrote:
> Dne 05.03.2010 (pet) ob 18:19 -0500 je Keith Clark zapisal(a):
> [snip] 
> > > 
> > I have completely removed sbackup from this and all my machines.  The
> > torrent files were indeed taking up a ton of space!  My problem is that
> > my drive was only ever 50% full, but was running out of space.
> > 
> > Keith
> 
> Yes, I understand that and my intention was to find out which process is
> eating space after you boot up.
> I gave Ktorrent just as an example of apli. which makes gvfs to report
> the size of data which actually is not there.
> My assumption was that you may have some application running in the
> background on you system with similar tendenci.
> By the way, if you don't mind me take another shot in the mist, did you
> check /media dir. (where sbackup files were, as you wrote) for any
> hidden dirs?
> And also: "gvfs reports root partition 100% full"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simplebackup/+bug/227753
> >From post #12 (back to the sbackup):
> <quote>
> > I had the same problem and found my solution here at
> > http://www.blog.arun-prabha.com/2008/07/22/deleting-files-from-roots-trash-folder-in-ubuntu/. I did not have to re-install the OS.
> > 
> > Apparently when the network share drive fails to mount due to the
> > fstab problem (network not up, drive will not mount), sBackup creates
> > the backup in your root folder. The procedure at this site outline the
> > steps to clear the hidden backup folder/file then describes how to
> > delete them from the root Trash folder. I just cleared up 22 Gib of
> > reported space. Kudos to Arun Subramanian’s Blog (Deleting files from
> > root’s trash folder in Ubuntu)!
> </quote>
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
Yes, that is where I found 2 sbackup files.  I deleted those, but they
had no impact on the free space available.

Keith