NOT SOLVED: /home/user/ is 90% of all disk space ? How ?

[shtumf]

Hi,
I m new to kubuntu and my problem is as discribed below:
I got a message saying my /home/ is getting full. I said to myslef, how can that be, out of 100GB I had only 2GB of free space left to use.
So I I though that the packages downloaded by Adept are so many that I have to clean it. I did apt-get clean. And than I uninstalled games and deleted some of the binary files in /home/user/download/ . The result is that I now have 8 GB free of disk.
Now the tricky part is here.
I measure space used in /home/user/ I get It uses 90% of all
I measure space used by all files on root partition / and without /home/ I get the rest
Now I enable hidden files and start searching for HUGE data that should be in /home/user
There is non found of course, that why I need someones help to answer my question.

What I happening ?
Is there a setting to somehow do something.

What I am saying is that I do not have 90% of my disk filled just by stuff in /home/user/
its imposible, there arent any HUGE data there, not even hidden

SOLVED
eh stupid me
its .strigi/ = 79GB

[Fintan]

Re: /home/user/ is 90% of all disk space ? How ?

I don't know what a hidden WTF is but can you tell us a few things?

How did you install? Did you use automatic (use whole disk) ?

Or did you make partitions first?

If so do you have a separate /home partition?
If so how large is it?
If not how how large is your / (root) partition?

can you post the results of this:

df -h

from a terminal?

All of the above can help us help you

[Fintan]

Re: SOLVED: /home/user/ is 90% of all disk space ? How ?

Oh okay. Yeps, that will do it

[shtumf]

Re: SOLVED: /home/user/ is 90% of all disk space ? How ?

root@laptop:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 99G 66G 29G 70% /
varrun 1007M 296K 1007M 1% /var/run
varlock 1007M 0 1007M 0% /var/lock
udev 1007M 64K 1007M 1% /dev
devshm 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1007M 43M 965M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda2 38M 24M 13M 66% /boot

After deleting .strigi/ there is still 66GB of data which is still not normal
I attached a screenshot. You will see that the used space of all files on / is about 10GB
while df -h shows 66GB used

Whats up with that ?


/dev/sda1 WinXP
/dev/sda2/ boot
/dev/sda3/ swap
/dev/sda4/ /

[Tomas Ã…]

Re: NOT SOLVED: /home/user/ is 90% of all disk space ? How ?

Maybe it's because Strigi is still running and have locked some of the files you removed. Did you kill Strigi before removing it's files? Otherwise: just kill strigi, and remove it (or prevent if from autostarting somehow).
Or just reboot (after you have ensured strigi won't autostart/removed it).


Otherwise something might be wrong with the disk. Try to repair the partition (Use with caution!): Reboot the computer and press esc when the boot loader tells you, then choose "recovery mode". When it has started, choose "root shell" and run the commands:

mount -n -o remount,ro /
e2fsck -fC0 /dev/sda4

First command will set the file system in read only mode, to prevent things changing while repairing.
Second command: -f means "force" (check the disk even if it seems ok), and C0 gives you a progress meter

BEWARE!! If you get a WARNING-message when trying to run e2fsck, it means the (re)mount command didn't succeed. Don't feel tempted to press 'y' in that case; it might destroy something.