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On 09/12/13 16:04, Martijn Grooten wrote:
The jpg's didnt load for me but if the DUA is the thing I think it is then its important to make sure your looking at the disk and not the file system as Martijn has writted.On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Julian Hall wrote:Hi Martijn,What happened was the machine had been idle and locked the screen, so as usual I entered my password to resume working. Then I had a warning dialog box that / was full with two buttons 'Ignore' and 'Examine'. Ignore would obviously be stupid so I clicked Examine, and that ran Mint's own Disk Usage Analyser, which is the screenshot you're referring to.It turns out it was right that the problem was in /media, but wrong that it was in a subdirectory of /media/julian - I think? - as /media/HERA is not a subdirectory of /media/julian.I'm not sure what you mean by 'regardless of partition' as I thought that mounting / , /home , and all the others in separate physical partitions, the only place I would have to look for a problem if / was full would be that one partition. Is that not the case or am I getting it wrong - again?No, your understanding is correct. It is just that Mint's Disk Usage Analyser shows something else than du does.DUA - as I understand it - shows how much disk space is used on the system as a whole. By that I mean that it simply sees the system as a tree with / as its root. The program (or at least the way it was run when you took the screenshot) then shows which directories use how much disk space.I can't see why that would be helpful, especially not if one of the partitions is full.You were right, the problems were in /media, more specifically in /media/HERA which is part of the main filesystem / (I am bad at termonology). Without knowing the partition table, you wouldn't be able to tell from DUA that there was an issue there though: /media/julian, for instance, uses a lot more disk space, but that isn't a problem because it is on a different partition with even more free space.I hope that explains. Martijn.
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