Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 17:19:28 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 03:53:32PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Got it! If he/she has root privileges they must be used. None of this > > namby-pamby user stuff. :) > > We're on our second iteration of that. We'll bore

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 03:53:32PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Got it! If he/she has root privileges they must be used. None of this > namby-pamby user stuff. :) We're on our second iteration of that. We'll bore ourselves to death. Let's just agree

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 16:10:51 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:57:48PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 09 May 2016 at 15:33:17 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:50:06 +0200,

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:57:48PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 09 May 2016 at 15:33:17 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:50:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 15:33:17 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:50:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Of course you gotta do that as root, either by sudo magic or whatever. > > > > Not

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:50:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Of course you gotta do that as root, either by sudo magic or whatever. > > Not necessarily; udisksctl (install udisks2)

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Brian
On Mon 09 May 2016 at 14:50:06 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:41:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 11:05:13AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > > Hi Haines, > > > > > I had thought that the "sde1" in your ncdu output was some sort of > > > header

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:41:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 11:05:13AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi Haines, > > > I had thought that the "sde1" in your ncdu output was some sort of > > header representing the / device,

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 11:05:13AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Haines, > I had thought that the "sde1" in your ncdu output was some sort of > header representing the / device, but having installed ncdu and run > it myself I am inclined to agree with Juergen that it is actually a > file. And so

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Haines, On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:43:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I had been inserting a sequence of USB keys to see what was on them, and > pretty sure the sde1 interface was used at some point. But no keys are > inserted at present. I also just did a cross installation onto an […] >

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Haines Brown
I had been inserting a sequence of USB keys to see what was on them, and pretty sure the sde1 interface was used at some point. But no keys are inserted at present. I also just did a cross installation onto an attached hard disk and so its directories were mounted locally on /mnt and I had

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-09 Thread Juergen Bausa
Haines Brown 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

Re: ghost partition

2016-05-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Haines, On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 07:48:16PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > # ncdu -rx / > 425.5MiB [##] sde1 > $ > 198.3MiB [ ] /lib > 193.8MiB [ ] /mnt > ... I am not familiar with ncdu but looking at its

ghost partition

2016-05-08 Thread Haines Brown
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 [##]