I noticed the root drive of my home server (Debian) is at 99% capacity, which was odd to be because I don’t store anything on the root ssd. sudo df -h confirms that 99% of my 256gb drive is full. But sudo du -sh * all added up, only comes to about 30gb.

This is a pc that only runs docker containers and one virtual machine for home assistant. And yes I have restarted, Any ideas as to how to find the missing 200+ gigabytes?

EDIT: sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I’m not sure what to do with this information (or what’s safe to delete) but I’m getting somewhere.

    • Jediwan@lemy.lolOP
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      20 hours ago

      Actually running sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I’m not sure what to do with this information (or what’s safe to delete) but I’m getting somewhere.

      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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        18 hours ago

        Isn’t that tool freaking nifty? I love ncdu. BTW the -x flag is useful to make sure you stay on the same file system (useful if you have network shares, extra disks, and to avoid digging stuff like /proc and /sys)

    • Jediwan@lemy.lolOP
      1·
      20 hours ago

      This is a cool tool thanks, unfortunately it is reporting the same (far, far below 99%) number.