Re: ghost partition
Haines Brown <haines <at> 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 should
be a file, not another partition. Besides, a partition sde1 would not
fill up your root partition, as long as /dev/sde1 is not mounted as your
root partition.
>
> $ mount | grep sde
> [nothing]
As sde1 is just a file, not a filesystem, it should no be listed under
mounts.
So, most likely some program wanted to write to /dev/sde1 but instead
wrote to /sde1 which was then filled up with data and now uses all the
free space of your root partition. If you don't know, how it was generated,
just make a backup on a usb usb-stick (in case you remember what it
was good for, just after erasing it) and delete the file.
Juergen
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