LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
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LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
I've got something weird on my LM 20.2 XFCE :
When downloading files over sftp to /tmp/ on my local box using filezilla - the transfers show they're succeeding but then there are no files to be found in /tmp/ .
If I do the same thing using scp from the command line - it works.
Has anyone experienced the same?
Thanks.
When downloading files over sftp to /tmp/ on my local box using filezilla - the transfers show they're succeeding but then there are no files to be found in /tmp/ .
If I do the same thing using scp from the command line - it works.
Has anyone experienced the same?
Thanks.
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
My wild guess is that filezilla is downloading your files to somewhere other than /tmp. Do a catfish search and see if so and where to would be the first step.
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Did that already and it's not downloading them anywhere.
The files do take time to download (at wifi speed) but then show up nowhere.
The files do take time to download (at wifi speed) but then show up nowhere.
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
/tmp is part of the root file system and filezilla is running as a user app so doesn't have permission to write to it. Create a /home/username/tmp folder and download to it.
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
/tmp/ is root:root with permissions of 777t which allows each user to write their own files.
This looks like a bug somewhere - possibly in filezilla.
This looks like a bug somewhere - possibly in filezilla.
Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Did you happen to install Filezilla via flatpak? If so, /tmp has a whole new meaning.
What does
What does
flatpak list
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Yes i used the flatpak version because it was newer than the one in the repos.Did you happen to install Filezilla via flatpak? If so, /tmp has a whole new meaning.
I've used flatpak for several other software installs too.
What's the story with flatpak?
Thanks.
Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Depending on how the file access permissions are setup, what Filezilla is using for /tmp might be completely different from what normal apps use. You should search the entire disk for any downloads.
Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Flatpaks take a lot of disk space and generally work very well. They also update automatically. I would encourage you to use them, especially on the larger, more complex programs that you use quite often.What's the story with flatpak?
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
I checked and the download is nowhere to be found.Depending on how the file access permissions are setup, what Filezilla is using for /tmp might be completely different from what normal apps use. You should search the entire disk for any downloads.
Using catfish it just says "Searching..." forever and finds nothing.
As root doing: find / -name "myfile*" -print yeilds no results.
But here's the weird bit - if I don't exit filezilla - I can upload this newly downloaded file to somewhere else and the file exists at the target.
But if I exit filezilla and start a new filezilla - the file no longer exists.
And it gets stranger - when I download the file and keep filezilla open - it's there in the /tmp/ . And if I open a second filezilla when the first one is still open - it's not there in the second filezilla, but it's there in the first filezilla - until I close the first one.
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
It sounds like you might have enabled TMPFS per https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... t.html#ID9, in which case temporary files will not be placed on the hard disk anymore, but on a virtual RAM disk instead.
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Nope. Standard /tmp/ dir mounted on / .It sounds like you might have enabled TMPFS per https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... t.html#ID9, in which case temporary files will not be placed on the hard disk anymore, but on a virtual RAM disk instead.
When I do :
cd /tmp
df -h .
I get the same size as / .
Really strange.
Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
Not so strange if you readWhen I do :
cd /tmp
df -h .
I get the same size as / .
Really strange.
man df
Perhaps you are thinking of
du -sh
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Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
I meant to say that the space in /tmp/ is the same as in / (because they are mounted on the same point).Not so strange if you read man df
Perhaps you are thinking of du -sh
If //tmp/ was mounted on some ramdisk (suggested by Larry78723 as a possible cause) then I'd get something like 4Gb free in the 'df' rather than something like 80Gb.
This proves that /tmp/ is a real place (not some ramdisk) and filezilla is indeed behaving strangely.
Re: LM 20.2 filezilla not downloading to /tmp directory
So your flatpak filezilla deletes the files it put in /tmp when it terminates.flyingrhino wrote: ⤴Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:28 am [quote
But here's the weird bit - if I don't exit filezilla - I can upload this newly downloaded file to somewhere else and the file exists at the target.
But if I exit filezilla and start a new filezilla - the file no longer exists.
Not very mysterious.