HELP! My /home partition keeps filling up.

salfter · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 81

In my case, I logged into my home desktop this morning to find / was full. I eventually tracked it down to ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log, which had grown to 90 GB. I truncated it with echo -n...it freed up lots of space on disk, but the indicated length was still a long way from zero. I found that it was getting spammed with these two messages repeatedly:

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:56 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:51 pm Post subject:

Honestly this is one major oversight here... There should be some warning to the user if this logfile grows above a certain size as most of the time it isn't checked.

I might add a simple zenity check at login ( if > ... Then...)
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salfter · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 81

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 744

I just started having these issues and after only one day I had a 262Gig .~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log file.

'balooctl disable' fixed it but is this a bug that should be reported?

dq

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:11 pm Post subject:

what does man say about balooctl and logging, lots of times there's a quiet option? (I don't run kde so have no answer)

You don't need baloo, it just keeps metadata about files on the system, similar to windows file indexing. Can speed things up (especially on slow hdd, less useful for ssd, IMO)
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 16513

In my opinion, it is absolutely a bug that a program would go writing gigabytes of error logs without explicit instruction from the user.

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 744

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 744

Is there a way to permanently remove/disable balooctl? I rebooted and it quickly filled up my partition again...

ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

Doing a quick search, this may have some useful information:

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/534745-KDE-and-Baloo-File-Indexing

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 744

Thanks, I see that script. The funny thing is that if I use that script as-is it will check every 2 days but I can guarantee my 1TB (mostly empty) partition will fill up before then!

(obviously I will change the interval in the script...) Thanks again!

dq

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ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

The link I posted also told you which config file to change (and what part), to disable the file-indexing that baloo does. Once that is disabled, baloo shouldn't be filling up your hard drive.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:35 pm Post subject:

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 16513

It looks like your solution may be a bit more effective than you intended. As I read that command, your shell will truncate the output file to be empty, then you will copy the last 10000 lines of the now empty file into the file. This leaves you with a zero line file, until the runaway logger starts adding to it again.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:48 am Post subject:

I would do it this way

tail -10000 /home/$(whoami)/.xsession-errors > /tmp/tmpname && mv /tmp/tmpname /home/$(whoami)/.xsession-errors

With the realization, that I might lose a message or two in the process.

Or if you really don't care about the errors (which most of the time you won't) then a simple >~/.xsession-errors will suffice.
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Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:32 am Post subject: