Help! Timeshift ate my Root (/) partition's free space!

[Amichai Rotman]

Cool!

Thanks Paul!

Now I can unhold my breath ;-)

I'll just delete the /timeshift/snapshots/.sync/ folder (19GB in size)

Amichai.



2013/12/11 Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>

> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 21:29 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > The main Timeshift window has no snapshots to delete, so I want to
> > delete the contents of the /timeshift/snapshots/.sync/ folder, but I
> > am not sure if it's a copy or a hard link - thus deleting it will
> > delete the actual system (i.e.: /bin, /boot, etc.)
>
> First, if everything was a hard link it wouldn't take up any extra
> space, so if you ran out of space they must be copies, not hard links.
>
> Second, deleting a hard link does NOT delete the "actual system file".
> The file on the system will only go away when the last hard link to that
> file is gone.  Deleting one link to that file doesn't impact any other
> links to that file.
>
> Note symlinks are entirely different and work entirely differently, so
> don't try to extrapolate this understanding to soft links (or you'll be
> sorry).
>
> > Anyway I can make sure it's not a hard link?
>
> If you run "ls -l" the number of hard links will show.  If it's "1",
> then this is the only hard link to that file.  If it's >1, then there
> are multiple hard links to the file.  But as above, it doesn't matter.
>
> psmith at pdsdesk:~$ touch foo
>
> psmith at pdsdesk:~$ ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 psmith psmith 0 Dec 11 14:35 foo
>            ^ # of links
>
> psmith at pdsdesk:~$ ln foo bar
>
> psmith at pdsdesk:~$ ls -l foo bar
> -rw-r--r-- 2 psmith psmith 0 Dec 11 14:35 bar
> -rw-r--r-- 2 psmith psmith 0 Dec 11 14:35 foo
>            ^ # of links
>
> psmith at pdsdesk:~$ rm bar
>
> psmith at pdsdesk:~$ ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 psmith psmith 0 Dec 11 14:35 foo
>            ^ # of links
>
>
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