Re: /tmp full and konsole not releasing the space
Whoever wrote the big file still has it opened.
lsof | grep /tmp | grep deleted should tell you what pid and/or
service to cycle to fix it and/or who is your troublemaker making the
big file and holding it open still.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:14 PM Walter Cazzola <cazzola(a)di.unimi.it> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I've a quite "noisy" problem on my freshly installed Fedora 31 laptop.
My 5Gb
> /tmp partition get full in around 10 hours of up time.
>
> No way to free it apart reboot.
>
> At the time of writing I've the /tmp partition full but I've already run a
rm
> -fr /tmp/* from root.
>
> These are some diagnostic data I can find:
>
> >du -h /tmp
> 4.0K /tmp/.font-unix
> 4.0K /tmp/.Test-unix
> 4.0K /tmp/.esd-526
> 4.0K /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.KNSxtF
> 4.0K /tmp/.com.google.Chrome.U2x6fK
> 4.0K /tmp/.X11-unix
> 4.0K /tmp/.XIM-unix
> 12K /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.uKH2RD/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps
> 16K /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.uKH2RD/icons/hicolor/22x22
> 20K /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.uKH2RD/icons/hicolor
> 24K /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.uKH2RD/icons
> 28K /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.uKH2RD
> 4.0K /tmp/.ICE-unix
> 96K /tmp
>
> >df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> devtmpfs 8128348 0 8128348 0% /dev
> tmpfs 8147108 296136 7850972 4% /dev/shm
> tmpfs 8147108 1860 8145248 1% /run
> /dev/sda7 51343840 26608456 22097560 55% /
> /dev/sda12 1569780 414968 1154812 27% /mnt/win_d
> /dev/sda9 7159288 1203200 5572704 18% /var
> /dev/sda6 705248 215828 438104 34% /boot
> /dev/sda13 765974760 681522348 45520036 94% /home
> /dev/sda11 5029504 2479500 2271476 53% /usr/local/exts
> /dev/sda10 5095040 4816516 0 100% /tmp
> tmpfs 1629420 64 1629356 1% /run/user/526
>
> > lsof /tmp
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> clementin 1481 cazzola 9uW REG 8,10 0 25
/tmp/qtsingleapp-clemen-d211-20e-lockfile (deleted)
> dropbox 1568 cazzola 3u REG 8,10 499 37
/tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-WZmtGN (deleted)
> dropbox 1568 cazzola 6u REG 8,10 0 63 /tmp/#63 (deleted)
> konsole 1615 cazzola 14u REG 8,10 0 40 /tmp/#40 (deleted)
> konsole 1615 cazzola 15u REG 8,10 0 42 /tmp/#42 (deleted)
> konsole 1615 cazzola 16u REG 8,10 0 44 /tmp/#44 (deleted)
> konsole 1615 cazzola 19u REG 8,10 41222144 46 /tmp/#46 (deleted)
> konsole 1615 cazzola 20u REG 8,10 4861394944 48 /tmp/#48 (deleted)
> konsole 1615 cazzola 21u REG 8,10 5181440 50 /tmp/#50 (deleted)
> skypeforl 2628 cazzola 39u REG 8,10 16 110
/tmp/skype-2628/skypert_sessionkeyjlJNdT (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola DEL REG 8,10 162 /tmp/#162
> konsole 3464 cazzola DEL REG 8,10 163 /tmp/#163
> konsole 3464 cazzola DEL REG 8,10 161 /tmp/#161
> konsole 3464 cazzola 17u REG 8,10 6896 113 /tmp/#113 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 18u REG 8,10 700416 114 /tmp/#114 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 19u REG 8,10 862 115 /tmp/#115 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 24u REG 8,10 6664 56 /tmp/#56 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 25u REG 8,10 0 116 /tmp/#116 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 26u REG 8,10 0 117 /tmp/#117 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 27u REG 8,10 0 118 /tmp/#118 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 32u REG 8,10 598016 57 /tmp/#57 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 34u REG 8,10 833 58 /tmp/#58 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 35u REG 8,10 0 119 /tmp/#119 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 36u REG 8,10 0 120 /tmp/#120 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 37u REG 8,10 0 121 /tmp/#121 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 45u REG 8,10 0 122 /tmp/#122 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 46u REG 8,10 0 123 /tmp/#123 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 47u REG 8,10 0 124 /tmp/#124 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 55u REG 8,10 0 125 /tmp/#125 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 56u REG 8,10 0 126 /tmp/#126 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 57u REG 8,10 0 127 /tmp/#127 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 65u REG 8,10 0 128 /tmp/#128 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 66u REG 8,10 0 129 /tmp/#129 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 67u REG 8,10 0 130 /tmp/#130 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 75u REG 8,10 0 131 /tmp/#131 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 76u REG 8,10 0 132 /tmp/#132 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 77u REG 8,10 0 133 /tmp/#133 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 85u REG 8,10 0 134 /tmp/#134 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 86u REG 8,10 0 135 /tmp/#135 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 87u REG 8,10 0 136 /tmp/#136 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 95u REG 8,10 0 137 /tmp/#137 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 96u REG 8,10 0 138 /tmp/#138 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 97u REG 8,10 0 139 /tmp/#139 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 105u REG 8,10 7824 140 /tmp/#140 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 106u REG 8,10 675840 141 /tmp/#141 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 107u REG 8,10 978 142 /tmp/#142 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 115u REG 8,10 0 143 /tmp/#143 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 116u REG 8,10 0 144 /tmp/#144 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 117u REG 8,10 0 145 /tmp/#145 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 125u REG 8,10 0 146 /tmp/#146 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 126u REG 8,10 0 147 /tmp/#147 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 127u REG 8,10 0 148 /tmp/#148 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 135u REG 8,10 0 149 /tmp/#149 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 136u REG 8,10 0 150 /tmp/#150 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 137u REG 8,10 0 151 /tmp/#151 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 145u REG 8,10 0 152 /tmp/#152 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 146u REG 8,10 0 153 /tmp/#153 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 147u REG 8,10 0 154 /tmp/#154 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 155u REG 8,10 0 155 /tmp/#155 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 156u REG 8,10 0 156 /tmp/#156 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 157u REG 8,10 0 157 /tmp/#157 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 165u REG 8,10 0 158 /tmp/#158 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 166u REG 8,10 0 159 /tmp/#159 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 167u REG 8,10 0 160 /tmp/#160 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 175u REG 8,10 6064 161 /tmp/#161 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 176u REG 8,10 1206656 162 /tmp/#162 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 177u REG 8,10 758 163 /tmp/#163 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 185u REG 8,10 0 111 /tmp/#111 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 186u REG 8,10 0 112 /tmp/#112 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 187u REG 8,10 0 164 /tmp/#164 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 195u REG 8,10 0 165 /tmp/#165 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 196u REG 8,10 0 166 /tmp/#166 (deleted)
> konsole 3464 cazzola 197u REG 8,10 0 167 /tmp/#167 (deleted)
> alpine 4074 cazzola 5uW REG 8,10 4 39 /tmp/.80d.12001ef
> bash 14643 cazzola cwd DIR 8,10 12288 2 /tmp
> vim 25380 cazzola 5u REG 8,10 4 39 /tmp/.80d.12001ef
> python3 25395 cazzola 5u REG 8,10 4 39 /tmp/.80d.12001ef
> lsof 26901 cazzola cwd DIR 8,10 12288 2 /tmp
> lsof 26902 cazzola cwd DIR 8,10 12288 2 /tmp
>
> It seems that konsole keeps blocked around 5Gb of space in a deleted file.
> How can I force konsole to realease it?
>
> As far as I remember, konsole was creating a huge cache file in Fedora 23 too
> but that wasn't a problem because the cache at that time was stored in
> .local/cache where I have plenty of space but now it is in /tmp. Alternatevely
> how can I force konsole to low the amount of cache it stores?
>
> Thank you
> Walter
>
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