Every once in a while I get a filled root partition, and the reason in each case is different. In the present case it seems that /dev/sde1 serves as the interface for something very large, even though the /dev/sde1 interface does not exist and is not mounted.
# ncdu -rx / 425.5MiB [##########] sde1 $ 198.3MiB [#### ] /lib 193.8MiB [#### ] /mnt ... $ mount | grep sde [nothing] # ls -la | grep sde brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 64 May 8 11:15 sde So the /dev/sde1 interface does not exist, but nevertheless du can access it. How can I remove what has attached itself to /dev/sde1? Haines Brown