As mentioned already before, use: df -h du -sh /* in order to see what disk and partition is lacking free disk space. And which top level directory consumes it. Once you find the top level directory on the full disk/partition - drill down by using du -sh /suspectDir/* and so on and so forth.
You can also take short cut by skipping ahead like this: du -sh /*/* More examples here https://www.tecmint.com/check-linux-disk-usage-of-files-and-directories/ or: man du Do not forget about fishing in the .dirName (hidden directories) I would not use any gui file manager to chase disk space - I assume that Thunar is ... Best luck, Tomas On Oct 25, 2017 11:02 AM, "John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:24:48 -0700 > Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Unfortunately, Thunar just displays all the movies in Movies without > >telling me if they are really on the USB drive or whether they are > >on /media/jjj/Movies. There are over 1400 folders (one for each movie), > >so checking each one individually would be ridiculous. I need a more > >efficient way to figure this out. Any suggestions? > > > >Umount / disconnect the external drive and then check to see if > >anything is still in the directory where the drive was mounted. > > Argh! Too simple. I was looking for something more difficult. :) > > However, having unmounted and disconnected Movies I discovered that I > lied. It is not mounted at /media/jjj/Movies. It is mounted > at /media/jjj, and 'Movies' is just the label of the device. When it is > not mounted there is no folder 'Movies.' I think my theory just crashed > and burned. > > I also rebooted, but I see no difference in available space on /. > > This leads me to Data (sda). This has long been a weird device. It > appears in Thunar as 'Data,' which is the label that I put on its sole > partition. But when mounted it appears as 'Data1,' yet 'Data' also > appears. I have a cron job that copies my mail folder to 'Data' every > night, yet it appears in Data1; Data is empty. I tried to delete > Data1but got the error message that it could not be deleted because > itwas busy. I totally do not understand any of this. > > Other than the copy of my mail folder (about 700MB), there is nothing on > the device sda. So right now I deleted its partition and am creating a > new one (with no label). I used Palimpsest for this action, and I told > it to erase everything with zeros. Just now I looked and it said it > would take 16 hours longer. I probably didn't need to be so thorough. > > Some time tomorrow I will see what happened. In the meantime if anyone > has any additional suggestions I'm all ears, er, eyes. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
