Re: Something eating diskspace in Testing

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 12:51:54 AM Johan DS wrote:
> hi
> I have testing installed with a separete /Home partition.
> 
> My root partition /dev/sda2 is slowly filling up. In a few hours it goes
> from 7GB to 15GB.
> Until there is no more space. I used ncdu. And also did
> ls and finds for big files and/or directories . But I can not find a file
> or directory that eats up space.
> 
> Any body a clou?

I used to have a problem like that because x used to spew thousands of errors 
into the .xsession-errors files.  Iirc, the problem was with the user version 
rather than root (on Wheezy / kde3 --or, actually, I guess it was on Debian 
5.n, which I guess was Lenny??).

Anyway, I worked around the problem by adding 2 lines to root's crontab (and I 
carried those over when I moved to Wheezy).  I don't see nearly as many errors 
there anymore, but ... 

  *  *  *   *   *     echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > 
/home/<user>/.xsession-errors
  *  *  *   *   *     echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > 
/root/.xsession-errors

Another thing I did was put /home on a separate small partition (currently 1 
GB, iirc), and I keep all of my "real user data" (i.e., documents, pictures, 
videos, programs that I write,  ...) under a separate top level directory, 
/<user>.