-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:41:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 11:05:13AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi Haines, > > > I had thought that the "sde1" in your ncdu output was some sort of > > header representing the / device, but having installed ncdu and run > > it myself I am inclined to agree with Juergen that it is actually a > > file. > > And so it is. I must have seen /sde1, but it failed to register on my > octogenarian brain. I moved it into storage and my full disk problem is > gone. Hard to know what that file is. The file command says it is data. > It may be an ISO. I'll eventually delete it.
A cheap shot: try to mount it. Either as loopback: mount -o loop /sde1 /mnt or by dd'ing it first to a suitable storage (e.g. a stick). If that suceeds, then it is a file system image *and* you can nose around in the mount directory (/mnt in the above example) to refresh your memory. Of course you gotta do that as root, either by sudo magic or whatever. > Thanks for the help, but should have discovered the source of the > problem on my own. Nobody's an island. regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcwh34ACgkQBcgs9XrR2ka12wCePHSetG4OveudFneH6vWi2Al8 GcMAn3iRly0CWPDDBLwF1iEqNGQedpjM =VFCl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----