Haines Brown <haines <at> histomat.net> writes: > > Every once in a while I get a filled root partition, and the reason in > > # ncdu -rx / > 425.5MiB [##########] sde1 > 198.3MiB [#### ] /lib > 193.8MiB [#### ] /mnt > ...
If 'ncdu -x' means 'do not cross filesystem boundaries' then sde should be a file, not another partition. Besides, a partition sde1 would not fill up your root partition, as long as /dev/sde1 is not mounted as your root partition. > > $ mount | grep sde > [nothing] As sde1 is just a file, not a filesystem, it should no be listed under mounts. So, most likely some program wanted to write to /dev/sde1 but instead wrote to /sde1 which was then filled up with data and now uses all the free space of your root partition. If you don't know, how it was generated, just make a backup on a usb usb-stick (in case you remember what it was good for, just after erasing it) and delete the file. Juergen
