Debian-based AppVM Personal Disk Full?

[Duane Michael]

Hi, I have a Debian-based AppVM that I've increased the personal storage on. I had it at 10GB. For some reason, it showed 5GB+ were in use when I had zero files anywhere in the entire home dir. I now set the personal disk space to 20GB and it now shows that 18G is in use... Again, the entire home dir is entirely empty. Any suggestions/guidance? Thanks!

[haaber]

sounds weird. so you confirm that "du -h" in a terminal gives
(essentially) zero size, and qubes insists 18G are occupied?

[unman]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:43:34AM +0000, 'Duane Michael' via qubes-users wrote:
> Hi, I have a Debian-based AppVM that I've increased the personal storage on. I had it at 10GB. For some reason, it showed 5GB+ were in use when I had zero files anywhere in the entire home dir. I now set the personal disk space to 20GB and it now shows that 18G is in use... Again, the entire home dir is entirely empty. Any suggestions/guidance? Thanks!

Have you checked for hidden files? I seriously doubt that your home
directory is "entirely empty".
Without knowing what you are running in the qube it's very difficult to
say anything further.
The personal storage includes /rw and /usr/local - it would be worth
checking there.
Best i can suggest is that you cd to /rw and then run 'du -sh ' to see
where the data is being stored. Then drill down until you identify the
source of that data - 18GB shouldn't be hard to find.

unman

[Chris Laprise]

The following will summarize the contents of home, but with enough
detail to figure out where to dig:

$ sudo du -cm -d 1 ~

If that doesn't turn up mystery files, run it again on the entire /rw
volume:

$ sudo du -cm -d 1 /rw

There are also graphical tools that show where space is used: Baobab
(Gnome) and Filelight (KDE).

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