Something gobbled root

[ka9qlq]

OK the other day i ran df and got this

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1      20807184 19354776  403768 98% /
varrun         998752   204  998548 1% /var/run
varlock        998752    4  998748 1% /var/lock
udev          998752    92  998660 1% /dev
devshm         998752    0  998752 0% /dev/shm
lrm          998752  39976  958776 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-rt/volatile
/dev/sdb2      49636212 30909956 16204856 66% /home
/dev/sda5      153834820  131220 145889188 1% /mnt/storage1
/dev/sdc5      151731104  131220 145433820 1% /mnt/storage2
/dev/sdb3       6693980  146028 6210588 3% /mnt/sdb3
/dev/sdd2      948743276 339155472 561773948 38% /mnt/sdd2

Every program I use to see what's eating all that space [it's a 20gb partition] says your only using 5.2 gigs. I ran

 sudo touch /forcefsck

to force fsck and rebooted nada. I was using Midnight Commander to copy 100 gigs and it crashed so I'm thinking maybe it caused something to not quite deleted but isn't listed anywhere. I'm tring to post a screen cap of filelight to use for reference.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: Something gobbled root

Open a console and type:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
df -hTxtmpfs

See if things have improved.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
[sudo] password for ka9qlq:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic libadplug0c2a linux-headers-2.6.24-19
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 libadplug0c2a linux-headers-2.6.24-19 linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 68.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 258858 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libadplug0c2a ...
Removing linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic ...
Removing linux-headers-2.6.24-19 ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ sudo apt-get clean
ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ df -hTxtmpfs
Filesystem  Type  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1   ext3   20G  19G 568M 98% /
/dev/sdb2   ext3   48G  30G  16G 66% /home
/dev/sda5   ext3  147G 129M 140G  1% /mnt/storage1
/dev/sdc5   ext3  145G 129M 139G  1% /mnt/storage2
/dev/sdb3   ext3  6.4G 143M 6.0G  3% /mnt/sdb3
/dev/sdd2   ext3  905G 324G 536G 38% /mnt/sdd2

This is crazy....but thanks for posting so fast

[Snowhog]

Re: Something gobbled root

Well, that eliminates downloaded packages as the culprit. Do you by chance, have Strigi activated?

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

No, don't know how to use it.

[Snowhog]

Re: Something gobbled root

Open a console and type:

sudo ls -allRS / | more

This will be slow, in that you will be presented files, is size order (largest to smallest) in each directory, beginning with /, a page at a time. You can look for very large files and note the name(s) of each (write them down exactly). Let me know what you find.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

I piped that to a txt file

 sudo ls -allRS / > /home/ka9qlq/lstext.txt

and it's 33.6 MEGAbyts!!!!!!! I don't see anything big so far. I really don't want to reinstall
Thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: Something gobbled root

You won't need to reinstall. Just identify the file(s) that you suspect are hogging up your root directory. It/they should be fairly easy to spot, as it/they will be few and very large. Once you believe you have identified the culprit(s), post the name(s) here for some investigation.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

I'm wondering why Kdirstat doesn't show 19 gb of files though I think what ever is hogging 14 gb there it's not a regular file. Look at this screen cap and do the math
Thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: Something gobbled root

I've got to question which drive you are looking at. Your initial report:

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ df -hTxtmpfs
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 ext3 20G 19G 568M 98% /
/dev/sdb2 ext3 48G 30G 16G 66% /home
/dev/sda5 ext3 147G 129M 140G 1% /mnt/storage1
/dev/sdc5 ext3 145G 129M 139G 1% /mnt/storage2
/dev/sdb3 ext3 6.4G 143M 6.0G 3% /mnt/sdb3
/dev/sdd2 ext3 905G 324G 536G 38% /mnt/sdd2

Shows a 20G root partition on sdb1 (2nd HD, 2nd partition). But your screen shot identifies a 5.09G root partition. Can you explain?

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

sdb1 is / or root [long story but it's correct] and running Kdirstat shows 5.09 gb of files on it I don't think it lists free space
thanks

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

It's got to be some kind of lost files that ls wont show........right?

[Snowhog]

Re: Something gobbled root

ls -all shows all files, even hidden ones within the selected directory. The R (recursive) beginning at / shows all files in the filesystem tree on the drive/partition you are running the command on. If you don't see/can't account for any file(s) that might be the culprit(s), then look in the trash bin. If the trash bin says it's empty, it might not actually be.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

OK as an experiment I used to mc to copy "/" to another 20 gb partition I just happened to have. I didn't copy

/home
/proc
/sys
/media
/mnt

then I ran df

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ df
Filesystem      1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       20807184 19166840  591704 98% /
varrun         998752    200  998552  1% /var/run
varlock         998752     4  998748  1% /var/lock
udev          998752    84  998668  1% /dev
devshm         998752     0  998752  0% /dev/shm
lrm           998752   39976  958776  5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-rt/volatile
/dev/sdb2       49636212 30981832 16132980 66% /home
/dev/sda5      153834820  131220 145889188  1% /mnt/storage1
/dev/sdc5      151731104  131220 145433820  1% /mnt/storage2
/dev/sdb3       6693980  146028  6210588  3% /mnt/sdb3
/dev/sdd2      948743276 340083124 560846296 38% /mnt/sdd2
/dev/sdd1       20321312  6391520 12905652 34% /mnt/sdd1

notice sdb1 and sdd1? it copied about 6.3 gig's of files which is what should be on sdb1. Something really screwy is going on.

Question if I do reinstall is there a way to list everything I have installed since I installed Kubuntu? I want to bring everything back as is if possible like "apt-get install

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  Thanks

[ka9qlq]

Re: Something gobbled root

Reinstalled problem fixed