On Saturday, February 17, 2018 12:51:54 AM Johan DS wrote: > hi > I have testing installed with a separete /Home partition. > > My root partition /dev/sda2 is slowly filling up. In a few hours it goes > from 7GB to 15GB. > Until there is no more space. I used ncdu. And also did > ls and finds for big files and/or directories . But I can not find a file > or directory that eats up space. > > Any body a clou?
I used to have a problem like that because x used to spew thousands of errors into the .xsession-errors files. Iirc, the problem was with the user version rather than root (on Wheezy / kde3 --or, actually, I guess it was on Debian 5.n, which I guess was Lenny??). Anyway, I worked around the problem by adding 2 lines to root's crontab (and I carried those over when I moved to Wheezy). I don't see nearly as many errors there anymore, but ... * * * * * echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > /home/<user>/.xsession-errors * * * * * echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > /root/.xsession-errors Another thing I did was put /home on a separate small partition (currently 1 GB, iirc), and I keep all of my "real user data" (i.e., documents, pictures, videos, programs that I write, ...) under a separate top level directory, /<user>.
