Reading some posts here and seeing some of you pointing the finger at sbackup. I'm having the same problem and I DO NOT use sbackup and never have.
I've installed Hardy Heron three times in the last 18 hours and keep running into the same problem with my partition filling up and then not being able to use it. This morning, I took some notes while installing and here's what I've come up with for your review. 1. Ran Live CD to install, formatted two partitions (10gig & 45 gig); no swap as I have 3 gigs of ram. Made mount points of / and /home. 2. 8.04 is installed. Ran update and downloaded 76 updates. 3. Setup my restricted drivers for video card. After all the above, my / partition is at 24% full. My / is only 10 gigs. Side note: had an update problem this morning with evolution that I didn't have twice yesterday. Someone may want to check. 4. Once all this was done, I copied all my folders and files from backup drive to my /home partition. I was at 25% when this was done. 5. Installed all the applications I like to have/use and / partition was at 28% full when finished. 6. Installed all the DVD media/CODECS files and was at 29% full when finished. So now, I'm completely done installing anything, but I'm still not happy with how some of my copied folders are locked due to the fact they were copied using gksudo nautilus. So, I delete a lot of folders in /home and recreate them. I then use file browser to copy them from back-up drive to /home. After a few minutes I think to check status of / partition again and BAM we're up to 91% full now. Granted, I have a little more space, but yesterday the / partition filled up completely doing the exact same thing as stated above and then I couldn't even use the computer. The only other connection I'm making is that sometimes I get an error because I don't have permission to move/copy/delete something and then switch over to gksudo nautilus to do it. Not sure if this error I'm making is somehow placing tmp files somewhere that is causing this problem. When I open terminal window and enter 'df,' I see there is a .gvfs in my sda3 (/home), which is the EXACT same size as my sda2 (/). Not sure how something in /home is directly tied to / since I have two separate partitions. Also, now when doing 'df' in terminal, I'm seeing: /home/me/.gvfs': Transport endpoint is not connected So, I'm at about 2.6 gigs for my / partition when done doing everything, but moving files around from backup drive to /home (completely different partition) causes me to jump up another 6-7 gigs and locks me up. Until this is fixed.. any ideas where something is filling up 'cause I can't find it using the disk usage analyzer. Thanks I'm running an AMD dual core 64 4000 with 3 gigs of ram -- Root partition usage reaches 100% without reason https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217389 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
