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I use Ubuntu Studio 24.04.2 LTS.

My main ext4 partition (System Files) in Thunar appears as full. But, if I use gnome-disk-utility and/or Gparted, I can see that partition has 5GB free space, at least.

The weird thing is past wesnesday 12, that partition appeared in Thunar with 37 GB free space. I don't have saved any kind of data inside that partition since a month, at least, because all my personal files are recorded inside another partition, which is a NTFS partition.

Also, I had some videos in the home video folder of that partition and I erased all of them, with Thunar. Even the fact those videos aren't there now, there is no changes about the partition status: it still appears as full in Thunar.

Even more, in a terminal I used the line commands to erase all the not necessary files (apt autoremove --purge). The output of that command was not errors, nothing to erase.

So... What's wrong here? Is it a virus? How can I fix this?

Juan
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I found a solution. I don't know if it is an "academic" solution but... It worked for me.

I used an app called: "Disk Usage Analyzer". After a while, the app shows me the problematic partition and, as expected, is was not full.

Then, I can see what are the folders with more disk space usage. One of them, in the "var" folder, has a folder with a lot of old disk recovery journals (some of them had more than 5 years old). I erased all those files and... Voila!!!

Now I have almost 40 GB free space in that partition.

Everything is works so fine, now.

Now, I have only two great doubts:

  1. Why the main system doesn't make this job automatically?

  2. If those files were there, How to know if there are others unnecessary files?

Juan
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