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Ladislav Prchal
Ladislav Prchal

Reputation: 9

Ubuntu run out of space

I installed Ubuntu 19 on my desktop on 220GB HDD, because my previous installation run out of space. I was loosing gigabites every minute, so I figured out that I will install the newest version.

Week later, yesterday, I checked remaining space. Out of 220 I had only 100GB free. I have installed only two games (XCOM2 & HOI4 = 40GB), I had installed phpstorm and docker. That is that (maybe some office communicator and such)

Then, during the night while I was watching movie (John Wick finally), the system told me that it is running out of space.

There was literally 0 bytes free. Thrash was empty, I have not doing anything and my free space was just gone. Now I am unable to boot into the ubuntu - I am stuck with a black screen.

So my questions are: 1) wtf is going on? Why my system loose more than 150GB in day? 2) how can I debug it? I used Ubuntu because I hoped that such a BS would never happen... 3) Is it because of steam? I would say that the system works fine until I install it... But why would that be connected? 4) Also it was said that Ubuntu works badly with Xcom2, so I wonder which linux distribution can handle it correctly... I assume that docker can work everywhere, so I will probably reinstall.

Finally I would like to thank you in advance with this. I am really repressed because I didnt git push my work. Again.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 538

Answers (2)

Ladislav Prchal
Ladislav Prchal

Reputation: 9

Ok so for anyone interested why is their disk space missing on Ubuntu - go to the steam folder and check ERROR.LOG ... Main was about 180GB...

Upvotes: 0

Mark Bramnik
Mark Bramnik

Reputation: 42531

Since you've said you have docker, maybe you should cleanup docker repository since every image can occupy a lot of space on disk.

// To see the list of images
docker images 

// to remove images
docker rmi  <IMAGE_ID>

Another useful command can be:

du -h --max-depth=1

Try this command starting from root and you'll see which folder(s) occupy a lot of space on disk.

You can also try to analyze with some interval to see where were the changes.

P.S. I can't comment on the Gaming part of this question, in general Stack Overflow is for concrete programming questions and issues usually with source code. So maybe you should try another forum/place...

Upvotes: 1

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