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I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bits and it worked perfectly (during days), until now. Suddenly several error messages coming from anywhere tell me that I have no free space on the disk. And now the Disk Usage Analyzer application show me this:

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I have open this application one day before and the quota of that partition was 2%. As if it had ridiculously increased in one day from 1G to 64G. You can see that this is wrong with this image:

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Another thing is that, since I installed Ubuntu (from the ISO and without upgrade), all the times that I initialize the system, it checks the disk for errors.

I rebooted three times my system, and now my system is working good. Now I have 61Gb of free space.

  • Is my disk with serious problem or is a bug of Quantal?
  • As the problem has been resolved instantly without changing anything, Should I do something to prevent it?
  • Should I report this as a bug? How?
Lucio
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My 2 cents

  1. Try to use df -hT to see free space, also use df -ih to make sure you have enough inodes on the file system, sometimes file systems can run out of inodes before running out of free space.

  2. use smartctl -a /dev/sdX to check SMART info (gsmartcontrol for GUI), make sure the HDD is in healthy condition

  3. if the issue happens again, try using find command to find super large files (e.g. 1GB+): find / -type f -size +1G -exec ls -lhS {} \;

  4. Remove it interactively (BE CAREFUL): find / -type f -size +1G -ok rm -i {} \;

  5. It is possible that some nasty apps were doing something in the background and filled the disk.

BTW: looks like your / and /home are on the same partition/LV. What file system is that? Ext4? I don't think this is a bug unless you can consistently reproduce the issue.

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