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.
Where are you running
du -sh *
? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I’m sure it’s obvious, but can never hurt to check!What does
du -sh /
show? (Generally, the*
glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)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.~~
sudo du -sh /
shows a list of threedu: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs' Permission denied
anddu: cannot access No such file or directory
and a fewcannot read directory invalid argument
and at the end it shows5.4T /
which I assume is my root drive combined with what’s inmnt
. ~~