Hello, everyone. Recently I finally decided to update my system, and right after the update ran into a problem: before update baobab showed ~22 GB avaliable space, and after the update it went down to around 8.
Here's some info, that might be relevant:
df output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 788700 1976 786724 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p8 53050368 48246568 4054792 93% /
tmpfs 3943496 0 3943496 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p8 53050368 48246568 4054792 93% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p7 998060 133944 795304 15% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 364544 89768 274776 25% /boot/efi
tmpfs 788696 104 788592 1% /run/user/1000
du -h /
shows 23G, du -h /home
— 13G. Overall I have 54.3G disk space, so (23+13)/54 doesn't add up to 93%
sudo lsof | grep deleted | wc -l
shows 8433 deleted files that are still in use.
I also tried booting with liveUSB and running 'check' on partition via GParted.
I did some research online:
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/baobab-shows-14gb-less-usage-where-is-the-rest/109527 - seems like a similar problem, but does not address huge du/df difference, also doesn't provide solution for me
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/414417/du-not-accounting-for-space-shown-by-df helped me understend difference between du/dh, so I provided output of lsof as suggested.
- a lot of other stackoverflow posts, all having similar answers, that didn't help me
I tried some methods to locate what consumes all the space, but couldn't figure it out. Also, the problem seems to be getting worse (right now baobab shows only ~5GB avaliable space). Can you help me find the source of the problem (and ideally also help me solve it :) )?
A reboot will make whatever processes that are still using those deleted files let go of them. Maybe that solves your problem. If not, ncdu will help you find large files and directories.
I've already tried rebooting (as mentioned in the post, I've run GParted 'check' from liveUSB, reboot after. Also, I've done it seperately). And ncdu shows basically the same result as baobab — it doesn't add up to 93% disk usage from df