I’m betting the root of this problem is on how I originally installed the system but I would like another opinion. Or several.

Running Mint.

After analyzing the disk usage, the folder where Thunderbird is installed is completely full. I have four separate accounts in it but a single one is responsible for taking all the space available, through the imap/sent folder, which makes no sense for me, as I send relatively few messages compared with all the messages I receive.

I already considered just purging the program from my system and completely reinstall it but if I’m going to do that I’m better off doing a fresh system installation.

The system has two disks: a SSD running the system core and a HDD for the home partition. I opted to keep the system core on the SSD to speed up booting (and it worked) and used the HDD for storage because. I prefer HDDs for user files, for longevity reasons. The biggest mistake I made here was not using LVM on the disks.

Any thoughts and criticism on this is welcome.

Thank you in advance.

  • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    What is the output of df -h? It’s hard to guess what could be wrong without some more data.

    The last 5% are by default reserved for the root user, so that’s a possibility.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago
      Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   16K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sda6               9,1G  4,2M  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda5                32G  9,6G   21G  32% /var
tmpfs                   1,4G  132K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

      I don’t see any partition full.

      • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, those aren’t full from a filesystem perspective. What exactly are you doing when it’s saying it’s full, and what is the exact message. Some things might have quotas independent of the space on the filesystem.

        • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          I got my first warning when trying to download some large files and at some point the browser just returned a message saying the download was aborted for not having enough space available. Nothing else.

          After running a disk scan, as I know the 500GB HDD is essentially empty, is when I find out the Thunderbird folder is full. And somehow it is causing the system to flag the entire disk has full.

          This is the general use computer of the house and there are more users on the system but I have the largest amount of files on it as I’m the primary user.

          • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            What is “a disk scan”? Can you either copy the input/output of the command or take screenshots? This is too vague to be of much use for debugging.

            • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              df -h returns the following

              Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   12K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda6               9,1G  400K  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5                32G  9,5G   21G  32% /var
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs                   1,4G  136K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

              /home has 371G free smartctl is not returning errors on the drive has well

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipMEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            Did you check dmesg for errors? It might be smart to verify it isn’t a hardware issue.

            Could you post screenshots?