Why is my root filesystem full and unable to find anything taking up space?

Why is my root filesystem full and unable to find anything taking up space?

How 104GB got stored in that directory while that filesystem was not mounted is a bit of a mystery. e2fsck taking a lot of space for use by the filesystem itself. [SOLVED] /var filesystem is full but unable to find what is being used.

How to recover missing space on Windows 10?

Methods to recover missing space on Windows 10, 8, 7 1 ✔Method 1. Unhide partition 2 ✔Method 2. Disable System Protection on C drive 3 ✔Method 3. Disable Hibernation 4 ✔Method 4. Recover missing hard drive space from unallocated space

What should I do if my root partition is full?

Some likely measures for an overflowing root partition are (based on cases): 1. Core dumps filling up the disk. 2. Unnecessary packages filling up the space. 3. Outdated kernel packages 4. Hidden storage

What to do when your root system is full?

This is a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 and I’m not sure how/why the root system is so full. 1. Core dumps filling up the disk. 2. Unnecessary packages filling up the space. The following command will remove all automatically installed packages, which aren’t required any more.

Why does my hard drive keep filling up?

Here is a true example we extract from answers.microsoft.com: For the past few days, my 1TB hard drive has been filling up rapidly – taking up as much as 100GB in a few hours. Can’t find mega-files (even in an in depth search), have already moved files off the drive and it keeps filling.

How big is the root filesystem in Windows 10?

You appear to have 104GB hiding under the /data/12 mount point directory. You can look in /tmp/rootbind/data/12 and its subdirectories and see if there is anything there you need to keep, and either move it elsewhere or delete it. It’s a bit odd that the filesystem you have mounted on /data/12 only appears to be using about 69MB.

How to stop C drive from filling up?

1 Get into the Safe Mode. For Windows 7 users, tap the F8 key in 1 second intervals immediately after the computer is powered on. 2 Run a full computer scan with your antivirus software. 3 Click Start -> Power -> Restart to return to your normal Windows configuration. That’s it!