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.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Thunderbird works. But I’m getting error messages about not having disk space available. When trying go make downloads, I get an error message from the browser. Using the disk analyzer in Mint, I can see the folder for Thunderbird and in there the ubfolder for the IMAP sent messages is full.

    • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Folders don’t get “full”—partitions do. Do you perhaps have a limit imposed inside Thunderbird’s settings on how much disk space it can use up? Do you get any errors about disk usage outside of Thunderbird?

      • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        I didn’t set a separate partition for mail. Thunderbird is in the general /home. But it appears to have reached a size of 6.1GB under imap/sent and that area is flagged as being out of space.

        The email ocasionallly returns an error message of not having disk space available for new messages.

        But when trying to make downloads to /home/downloads several have been aborted due to not having available space.

        This makes no sense. With nearly 400GB of /home free, every user /home folder should just slowly fill that space as required/needed. But that is not what is happening. The free storage space is not being accessed

        • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Can you do more testing with other applications trying to write to /home? Are you sure it’s not a Thunderbird bug/misconfiguration?

          If it happens for other programs trying to write to /home then I’m stumped ngl. I assume you have checked for hidden files.

          • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            I risk it is. It makes no sense why the space for the mail client is getting full while the rest of the disk is nearly empty.

            LibreOffice saves with no problem to the disk. The browser saves small files with no issue. Dowloading large files, on the other hand, returns a error of no available storage space.

            I’m just backing up all the files and reinstalling the system.