Sincerely thank you. It was not a problem of ext4, sorry ;)... I never imagined that ubuntu one would create temporary files three times as large as the original file to synchronize...
Regards, nbl On 7 oct, 15:58, nbl <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your help. > > I have just rebooted my computer and disk usage goes from 63% to 87% > right now, I tried : > $ sudo du -x / | sort -nr | head -20 > 9117108 / > 4731844 /usr > 2620968 /tmp > 2280272 /usr/share > 1572152 /usr/lib > 1457140 /opt > 1308772 /opt/matlab > 688452 /usr/share/doc > 504904 /opt/matlab/toolbox > 400904 /usr/src > 325624 /opt/matlab/bin > 324552 /opt/matlab/bin/glnx86 > 241852 /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc > 239384 /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex > 230396 /usr/lib/libreoffice > 230236 /lib > 230128 /opt/matlab/help > 229796 /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.3 > 226196 /usr/local > 219460 /usr/lib/jvm > > In /tmp directory : > $ ls -al > gives : > -rw------- 1 nico nico 2683772252 2011-10-07 15:46 tmpEJcSS6 > > It appear that this file is used by : > 3579 ? SLl 4:32 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubuntuone-client/ > ubuntuone-syncdaemon > > Ah ah ah, probably because of a big file I puts a few days on > ubuntuone... > > I'll remove it and tell you. > > On 7 oct, 14:56, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'd suggest that 'top' below be replaced by 'head', or it won't do anything > > special :) > > > Once you find the top files, 'fuser' will help you find the processes > > responsible. > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Jeremiah Bess > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Running this command will help you find your largest files. Might help > > > find > > > the culprit: > > > > sudo du / | sort -nr | top -20 > > > > Jeremiah E. Bess > > > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 02:08, nbl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi all ! > > > >> Since a few days my root partition is continuously filling up to 100%. > > > >> I found no file that could account for such a disk usage and when I > > >> reboot the computer disk space come back to normal (~60% used) and > > >> fill up again in a few time. > > > >> I ran this command : > > >> iotop -a --user root > > > >> And I noticed two crazy processes : > > >> 357 be/4 root 372.00 K 4.59 G ?unavailable? > > >> [flush-8:0] > > >> 360 be/3 root 0.00 B 1625.69 M ?unavailable? [jbd2/ > > >> sda5-8] > > > >> These two processes wrote several gigabytes in less than a half of an > > >> hour on the root partition. > > > >> I use Ubuntu Lucid with latest kernel 2.6.32-34-generic, coming back > > >> to 2.6.32-33 didn't solve the problem. The root partition is formatted > > >> in ext4. > > > >> Do somebody have an idea ? > > > >> Thanks ! > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > >> Group. > > >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > >> To unsubscribe, send email to > > >> [email protected] > > >> For more options, visit our group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > >> References can be found at:http://goo.gl/anqri > > >> Please remember to abide by our list rules > > >> (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > > >>http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > > Group. > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > > For more options, visit our group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > References can be found at:http://goo.gl/anqri > > > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > > >http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > > > -- > > > Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
