Re: partition reporting full, but not
On 18/2/24 14:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes the / partitions are btrfs
So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots.
Seems to be the prime suspect. If that's the case, btrfs is NOT hard-
linking the snapshots as timeshift claims it does. The only way to check
is install on ext4 and compare. I have saves enough free space to do this.
My effort to date is to move my home to /mnt/data and sim-link it into /
home. df is now showing 2.3GB free on /. df showed /home as 2.2GB
yesterday. At least there is a little space to play with; and give me
time to consider. A fresh install may be worth checking in snapshots are
as big as this all makes them look.
a few brief answer to other comments will follow
So later yesterday afternoon I created a new snapshot with no obvious
change is free space.
I then update/upgrade. The initial attempt told me
63 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 337 MB of archives.
After this operation, 473 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
But the 3 kernel related packages failed to install a couple of times.
When I finally figured I should check space, there was none. I rolled
back to prior to the upgrade, but still no free space.
I said sometime in this thread that timeshift (and BiT) use hard links
to create progressive copies of the system. The more I think about how
hard links reportedly work, I reckon it can't be simply hard links.
So I'm starting a new thread on that topic.
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All the best
Keith Bainbridge
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