From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2022-11-20 02:18, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 11/19/22 15:55, Andrew wrote:   
   >> bad sector wrote:   
   >>> On 11/19/22 15:22, Andrew wrote:   
   >>>> bad sector wrote:   
   >>>>> Tumbleweed   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> /proc/kcore is 128.0TiB in size   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> and i get warning of disk full   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> how do I get rid of this crime against reason?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Last thing I did was a huge rsync of 2 external   
   >>>>> data directories on 2 external data partitions   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> something like   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> rsync -ahcEWXd --info=progress2 /0/d/a/  /0/s/a;  rsync -ahcEWXd --   
   >>>>> info=progress2 /0/d/h/  /0/s/h   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> My /proc/kcore is 140 737 471 594 496 bytes.  This is not something   
   >>>> I've ever worried about - or even noticed - and   
   >>>   
   >>> I wouldn't either but getting ab alert that my disk is full is   
   >>> 'worthy of investigation'. To me it IS a problem so when I saw it I   
   >>> went looking, maybe I should look elsewise   
   >>   
   >> df, or df -h ?   
   >> Once you find the offending partition, go there (possibly as root) and   
   >> du --max-depth=1 | sort -n   
   >> will show you your subdirectories, sorted on size, largest last.   
   >> Traverse down the tree until you find something really offensive.   
   >   
   >   
   > Somehow my rsync commands synced created folders under the root tree   
   > instead of mountpoints of mounted drives. So I was writing to the >   
   partition mounted as / until space ran out.   
      
   That was obvious :-)   
      
   > Finger up the old bazooka   
   > again!   
   >   
   > My notes are a little confusing, I think I shudda put a trailing / after   
   >   
   > /0/s/a and /0/s/h  i.e. /0/s/a/ /0/s/h/   
      
   Hard to say not knowing what each letter actually is.   
      
      
   Hint:  I look, seconds after firing rsync, where the files are actually   
   going to, using 'mc'.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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