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I'm running Mint 18.2 (Mate) in a Lenovo 100-15IBD, and before upgrading to
18.3 I installed Timeshift to create a system snapshot.
It started working in the background and some hours later a pop-up window said
that my disk had only 500 mb left. (I have only 1 HDD, with 500 Gb, with about
207 gb free).
I tried to execute Timeshift to see what was happening, but I received a
message that the program was already running. I tried to kill the application
(command 'killall), without success. Tried to erase the snapshot directory
(/timeshift/snapshot/2017-12-12-etc), but it said the operation wasn't allowed.
Then I made logoff and shut down the system, to try to stop the process.
The problem was that, as the disk was full, I was unable to login. Fortunately,
in the forum (
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=253502&p=1364448&hilit=disk+full#p1364448
), Rene said to someone with a similar problem to set the root-reserved
percentage on the root filesystem from 5% to 0%. And that worked! I was able to
login and then manually delete the directory.
I'm not an expert in Linux, but it seems that Timeshift has no instruction to
stop before completely filling a disk, so it goes and goes until everything
screws up, and you can't login anymore. I've noticed some more 1-2 similar
issues in the forum.
Sorry if this seems a little stupid for more experienced users, but for me, as
a newbie, was quite unexpected.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Tags: timeshift
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Timeshift makes disk full, blocking login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738065
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