On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 07:26:49AM +0000, 'floasretch' via qubes-users wrote: > My hard disk was 95% full, as shown by usage/size in the output of qvm-pool > -i lvm. So I decided to delete some old unneeded app qubes, each taking a few > hundred MB or a few GB of space. > > Before deleting each one, I started it to check the contents, to verify there > was nothing I needed to save. HD usage crept up a little, then a little more > after I killed the qube. But surprisingly, HD usage crept up a little more > after I deleted the qube, instead of decreasing! > > I guessed it was a fluke, so I did the same with the next qube. The same > thing happened! Then again with the third and fourth qubes. At this point, my > HD is 99% full. I ran fstrim / in dom0, and it reported about 5GB freed, but > HD is still 99% full. > > I'm starting to panic, since I know Linux fails badly when an LVM pool that's > over-committed with thin volumes (as Qubes 4.0 is designed) fills up. > > I know the qubes were deleted successfully, since lvs | grep <qube name> no > longer shows them. > > No running qubes are writing any significant data to disk. Now that I'm not > deleting any more qubes, HD usage is holding steady at 99%. > > Why isn't my HD usage decreasing when I delete qubes? How can I free up some > space? > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
I admire your persistence in continuing to remove qubes. Have you tried running 'sudo fstrim -av' in dom0? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20181010125258.kjkcejcrllr3eoyq%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
