Hello! I'm not a Ubuntu pro user, but I'm trying to learn more and more. Yesterday, I experienced the same situation as described here.
I work with molecular dynamics simulation, specifically with a program called GROMACS. When I was trying to do a simulation, the program told me it would take about 2 days to complete (weird, because the kind of simulation I had trying usually lasts about 6 hours). It only took a little time for my hard disk free space had being completely consumed (and breaking my simulation). When I used the Baobap to see the disk usage, it took me to this folder .cache/upstart occupying about 70GB! I deleted it, restarted the computer, and my simulation had functioned normally (it took 5 hours to complete), and I didn't have any problems with the .cache. Very strange bug!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240848 Title: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner Status in Unity: Invalid Status in mediascanner package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I just noticed that ~/.cache/upstart/ folder on my computer is taking up 69GB of space. Upon further investigation, I found out that mediascanner.log and unity-panel-service.log take 12GB and 54GB of space respectively. I'm not entirely sure if this is related to upstart as I had removed logrotate package because of a conflict. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1240848/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
