I was copying 500 GB files from an external HDD to another external HDD and suddenly the local memory was running out?
When the copy was completed I rebooted and I get now a black screen. Logged in via SSH from another machine and the df -h command says :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3,9G 0 3,9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 801M 9,5M 792M 2% /run
/dev/sda1 213G 212G 0 100% / <-----------------------
tmpfs 4,0G 0 4,0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 4,0G 0 4,0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 801M 0 801M 0% /run/user/1000
And the du -sh command says :
du: cannot access ‘./proc/1945/task/1945/fd/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘./proc/1945/task/1945/fdinfo/4’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘./proc/1945/fd/3’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘./proc/1945/fdinfo/3’: No such file or directory
212G
I don't get why the local HDD was affected by this as the file transfer involved only 2 external hard drives, caches ? temporary files ?
Obviously now I cannot delete large files as there aren`t any!
I copy the files through dolphin on Kubuntu 15.04 and maybe I should have done it via command line.
Can anyone help me with this and maybe explain me why?
Thanks
