IIRC early in the thread it was said that no partition seems to be out of space using du / file manager.
I find it unlikely on a desktop system but it is possible that a file system is out of inodes. You can use the following to check for inode usage df -i -- David On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 06:44 -0700, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > 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-directori > es/ > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
