[xubuntu-users] Hard Drive Full !!!

[flocculant at gmx.co.uk]

On 07/05/16 13:04, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> I tried to copy files from an external HDD to my Home dir and
> received a warning that that HDD was full.  !!!!!
>
> This is not possible since yesterday I had 330GB free. I checked the
> size of each dir and it did not add up to anywhere near being full.
>
> For some unknown reason checked /media from a terminal, there was 3
> devices connected with the balance of the data that gave a disk full
> warning.
>
> Very interesting since at this time no HDDs were connect externally. One
> of the devices mounted as root has been in a suitcase for 3 weeks and
> the other 2 are in a 5 bay external rack powered off and the USB 3.0
> cable disconnected. These two have video files that I have been
> transferring between two external HDDs.
>
> Has anyone an theory as to how this might have happened?
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None.

Not surprising you've given no real info to anyone.

I'd first guess at some encryption foo so please give people the results of

df -h
df -h /boot
mount

thanks

Just as a for instance I've got ~2Tb free - NONE of which is available 
to root to do what 'it' wants with ...



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