Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 100% Disk Usage

[poue]

I have no idea what is happening. I have my os on an NVME drive, with the /home directory mounted on a 6TB HD. I am getting an error that
my hard drive is full. I have deleted multiple timeshift backups, and files that show as being overly huge. Based on another post I have this:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=b320feb1-a009-445d-91bb-4dc1d7967a76 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=6EED-E9E8                            /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# /home was on /dev/sdb during installation
UUID=2195593f-3134-473a-8862-190dad27f4c0 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0

and..

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Filesystem          Size     Used    Avail     Use%    Mounted on
udev                7.8G       0      7.8G      0%     /dev
tmpfs               1.6G     1.9M     1.6G      1%     /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2      228G      80G     137G     37%     /
tmpfs               7.9G       0      7.9G      0%     /dev/shm
tmpfs               5.0M     4.0K     5.0M      1%     /run/lock
tmpfs               7.9G       0      7.9G      0%     /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p1      567M     7.9M     560M      2%     /boot/efi
/dev/sda            5.5T     2.6T     2.6T     51%     /home
tmpfs               1.6G      16K     1.6G      1%     /run/user/1000

Any one have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this?


Thanks

[SMG]

I am getting an error that my hard drive is full.

Are you getting this even after you deleted the snapshots and files? The data you posted is not showing a full root partition (which is usually what triggers those warnings).

[ricardogroetaers]

poue,
In the data you posted I didn't see a "home" or "/" partition with no space available.

Have you installed any disk space monitoring programs or plugins? If "yes", how did you configure it?

[poue]

I am getting an error that my hard drive is full.

Are you getting this even after you deleted the snapshots and files? The data you posted is not showing a full root partition (which is usually what triggers those warnings).

These are the results after deleting all the larger files. Initially on installing the os, I chose the option to install to the NVME drive but with
/home on the 6TB drive. I did that during the installation.

[poue]

I am getting an error that my hard drive is full.

Are you getting this even after you deleted the snapshots and files? The data you posted is not showing a full root partition (which is usually what triggers those warnings).

I was getting the error, so I deleted a large amount of Timeshift backups and a several GB of files that seemed to be taking up excessive space. I am
still getting the error after deleting everything.

[SMG]

Initially on installing the os, I chose the option to install to the NVME drive but with
/home on the 6TB drive. I did that during the installation.

Many people put /home on a different disk. You can have a very full /home and not get that message because that message is usually a function of the fullness of your root partition. The root partition is where the operating system mainly resides.

Please let us know the answer to ricardogroetaers question of whether you have any disc monitoring software installed and how it might be configured if you do.

Please also give us information about your install by showing us the output of inxi -Fxxxrz.

[poue]

Initially on installing the os, I chose the option to install to the NVME drive but with
/home on the 6TB drive. I did that during the installation.

Many people put /home on a different disk. You can have a very full /home and not get that message because that message is usually a function of the fullness of your root partition. The root partition is where the operating system mainly resides.

Please let us know the answer to ricardogroetaers question of whether you have any disc monitoring software installed and how it might be configured if you do.

Please also give us information about your install by showing us the output of inxi -Fxxxrz.

I have no disc monitoring software beyond what comes with the distro. The output of your request is as follows:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 info: mate-panel wm: marco 1.24.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450 Gaming-ITX/ac serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.10 date: 06/19/2018 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 76644 
  Speed: 1373 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1374 2: 1369 3: 1374 4: 1375 5: 1375 6: 1372 7: 1375 8: 1376 9: 1374 
  10: 1374 11: 1373 12: 1374 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:67df 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa compositor: marco v: 1.24.0 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~75Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.35.0 
  5.4.0-70-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:aaf0 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457 
  Device-3: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
  bus ID: 3-3.1:3 chip ID: 046d:0825 serial: <filter> 
  Device-4: Texas Instruments PCM2704 16-bit stereo audio DAC type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 3-3.2:4 
  chip ID: 08bb:2704 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-70-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel bus ID: 24:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fb 
  IF: wlp36s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASRock driver: igb v: 5.6.0-k 
  port: f000 bus ID: 25:00.0 chip ID: 8086:1539 
  IF: enp37s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 5.69 TiB used: 2.68 TiB (47.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS250G3X0C-00SJG0 
  size: 232.89 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 111110WD 
  scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST6000DM003-2CY186 size: 5.46 TiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5425 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0001 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 227.68 GiB used: 95.21 GiB (41.8%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-2: /home size: 5.41 TiB used: 2.59 TiB (47.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1316 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
  1: deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
Info:
  Processes: 362 Uptime: 16h 09m Memory: 15.63 GiB used: 6.80 GiB (43.5%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.0.38

[SMG]

I am still getting the error after deleting everything.

Have you rebooted since you deleted the files? Your inxi information shows an uptime of 16 hours which would seem to indicate you have not yet done that. I do not know what causes the message to show which means I do not know what causes it to clear.

If you deleted a lot of files from your root partition, then you may have fixed the issue. Is your Disks app showing your nvme drive to be full? What does the message say or look like? It there a button to click to have it re-check your system or be removed?

[poue]

If you deleted a lot of files from your root partition, then you may have fixed the issue. Is your Disks app showing your nvme drive to be full? What does the message say or look like? It there a button to click to have it re-check your system or be removed?
[/quote]

I have rebooted several times. Disks shows: 249 GB — 136 GB free (45.5% full) Disk Usage analyzer shows /ITX as 100% however everything listed under it
does not add up to 100% and nothing appears to be red (color coded for being excessively large)

[SMG]

Disk Usage analyzer shows /ITX as 100% however everything listed under it
does not add up to 100% and nothing appears to be red (color coded for being excessively large)

What is /ITX ?

[poue]

That would be what I named the computer.. so the tree starts /ITX then /home is under that

[SMG]

Maybe I'm looking at a different app. My Disk Analyzer does not list percentages and it does not have my computer name beside / (but my computer name is quite long so that might be why it is not beside it). My / is showing as red, but it is only 15% of my disk space.

The data you have posted does not indicate your disk is full, so I do not know why the message is coming up.

Do you have any messages in System Reports that might explain why you are getting the pop-up message?

[deepakdeshp]

Please see https://www.tecmint.com/find-top-large- ... linux/amp/ This should help.

[poue]

I looked at this page and there is nothing glaring that is full.

This is what I see on Disk Usage Analyzer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11TBkZ8 ... sp=sharing

I have 2 drives, 1) 250GB NVME for the os
2) 6TB HD for /home

[SMG]

I looked at this page and there is nothing glaring that is full.

This is what I see on Disk Usage Analyzer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11TBkZ8 ... sp=sharing

That image is showing a full root which is probably why you are getting the message.

However, it is showing root's size as 2.9 TB even though it is showing the total filesystem capacity as 6.4 TB. For some reason there is a /home under root and it is showing 2.8T (98.1%). The earlier data you posted indicated /home is 5.5TB in size. I do not know what might cause that to happen, so I, unfortunately, do not know what to check.

The issue seems to be in how /home is being viewed by the system. Because /home's configuration is somehow not correct, that is messing up how root is being seen.

[deepakdeshp]

Did you try
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... t.html?m=1

[deepakdeshp]

Did you try
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... t.html?m=1

Post output of

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 df -m |grep sda

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[poue]

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itx@itx-desktop:~$ df -m |grep sda
/dev/sda         5677021 2652181   2738666  50% /home

[DAMIEN1307]

I looked at this page and there is nothing glaring that is full.

Just for "grins and giggles", copy and paste these cleanup commands, (one at a time), into your terminal to clean up any other residue that could have been missed.

Make sure to REBOOT computer after they are all done and then check to see how much space you might have recovered...DAMIEN


Kernel and other Cleanups after Deletions:

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sudo apt autoclean

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sudo apt autoremove --purge

Clear Temporary Files:

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sudo find /tmp -type f -delete

Clear Miscellaneous Detritus:

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dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}' | sudo xargs dpkg --purge

Clear the Thumbnail Cache:

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rm -v -f ~/.cache/thumbnails/*/*.png ~/.thumbnails/*/*.png

Clear DNS Cache:

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sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches

Flush Journald:

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sudo journalctl --rotate

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sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=1s

[poue]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vVKZJ7 ... sp=sharing

I finished these clean ups. And I have posted the new status of Disk Usage