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So I have a partition that I use to backup/store things. This partition worked correctly since I installed 14.04 with no problems.

Now all of a sudden I am gettting errors saying I am running out of disk space (not likely '/' = 25gb '/home' = 50gb) and they are lightly used (a few gb's at the most)

The problem I found is that one of my partitions is having mounting issues and somehow being calculated as part of the root drive.

If I try to unmount that drive in nautilus, I get...

Error unmounting /dev/sda7: Command-line `umount  "/media/jeff/52244CCF244CB82D"'      
exited with non-zero exit status 1: umount: /media/jeff/52244CCF244CB82D: not mounted

I have no idea what could be causing this or when it actually started. Any ideas?

AS REQUESTED: /etc/fstab....

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=828a5223-2197-404b-872e-6b8065a6fe71 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=9A00-3A00  /boot/efi       vfat    defaults        0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=7fc431e9-d150-4bb9-a9b2-d90eb7289bc9 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=2070661b-2eba-4d94-b67b-69e6b786b980 none            swap    sw              0       0

$ blk /dev/sda7

/dev/sda7: UUID="52244CCF244CB82D" TYPE="ntfs"

ADDDED:

/dev/sda8 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
overflow on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=1048576,mode=1777)
/dev/sda9 on /home type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jeff)

WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING...

  1. Something happened that caused an error with the mounted drive
  2. it is now being prevented from doing anything, in a sort of locked state
  3. When I go into nautilus and click on the drive itself, it mounts itself with a '1' appended to the end of the drive. If I go to /media/jeff I see both drives, one with an x over it, that is empty, ...and one that is normal.
  4. If I go to the terminal and try to mount/unmount the '+1' drive it works
  5. If I go to terminal and try to mount/unmount the drive with the 'x' it fails

So it is sort of stuck somehow and it is also jamming up my root drive space somehow. What would happen if I just did '$ sudo rm /media/jeff/stuckdrive'?

Joff
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It seems like what you considered your /home partition never got automounted (at least it does not now). So Ubuntu still includes the /home directory to the root partition /. And of course, as it does not get mounted at boot time, you can not manually unmount it either!

So I suppose we have to manually edit your /etc/fstab configuration file. Could you please post this by including it into your question? You can leave the first 6 lines out and start with the line beginning with "# We might also need the output of sudo blkid /dev/sda7 to add this partition back to your automount list.

So when you attached those two pieces of information to your post, just leave me a short comment on this answer to wake me up... ;D
See you later!

CORRECTION: It is not the /home partition that fails but an independent NTFS backup volume! I misunderstood.

Byte Commander
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