The HDD space leak makes it hard to debug..
I tried with a more precise approach this time and installed no updates between
downloading and removal.
The file I removed had 30MB, Free space before removal: 47M, Free space after
removal: 47M
Is there anything in particular that I should try?
I don't like wasting my precious HDD space on random attempts.
removing transmission-downloaded files with "rm" restores the free space as one
would expect.
System info:
Using 13.04.
Kernel 3.8.0-14-generic x86_64
Transmission 2.77-0ubuntu1
ecryptfs-utils 103-0ubuntu2
ext4 mount options: rw,nodiratime,relatime,discard,errors=remount-ro
apport 2.9.2-0ubuntu5, does not work
Steps I executed (full experiment log)
$path denotes the directory that contains the file to be deleted
$cryptopath denotes the same directory in encrypted version of the home
directory.
The file was present both in $path and $cryptopath (checked by ls -lSrh and
comparing timestamps and sizes)
df -h reported 47M of free space
Started transmission-gtk and selected "Delete files and Remove", confirmed
The file was gone from both directories,
BUT df -h still reported 47M of free space
Terminated transmission.. 47M of free space
shutdown and new startup.. 47M of free space
forced fsck.. discovered that the free space and free inode counters were
wrong, I actually have only 46MB of free space.
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Release: 13.04 Raring
Package: transmission-gtk 2.77 (14031)
Package: ecryptfs-utils 103-0ubuntu2
Kernel: 3.8.0-14-generic x86_64
+ apport: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5, does not work
Using ecryptfs = Yes
+ ext4 mount options: rw,nodiratime,relatime,discard,errors=remount-ro
This used to happen on 12.10 Quantal as well.
download something.
- (Wait a year,install updates.. - My ecryptfs directories now contain shorter
and longer encrypted/hashed names, perhaps there is an error in there?)
Check the used disk space "df -h" or "du -s /home/.ecryptfs"
- Select your torrent, Right click, select "Delete files and remove"
+ Select your torrent, Right click, select "Delete files and remove", confirm.
Check your disk space again.
Expected: appropriate amount of space immediately freed up.
Got: No space was freed, not even after closing transmission
Apport is still broken on Raring, see #1150335
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