Full storage problem

[RobM93]

I hope there's not an obvious thread about this already, but I've been pulling my hair out searching but haven't yet managed to make any progress regarding a fix. Last night I was trying to set up transmission as a torrent client on my raspberry pi (RaspBMC). I eventually managed to get it working, started off having the "Permission denied" error which I fixed by changing the user to Root, obviously giving it full access and allowing it to write the the external HDD. All seemed fine so I set some torrents downloading and went to bed. Getting up this morning, a few of the torrents have downloaded but the rest were saying that there was no space for the download. Both the completed and the in progress torrents should have been in the same place, on the 750gb hard drive with plenty of room (only 2/3 full). Upon further investigation, according to the XBMC home screen the /dev/mmcblk0p2 filesystem located on the / directory is full. The SD card attached is 8gb, 69mb of which is used for /dev/mmcblk0p1 (/boot). The 7.4GB left over is supposedly 100% full.

As far as I can tell, it isn't full. I've downloaded NCDU and run it on the / directory looking for files that are large enough to cause problems but got nothing.

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  0.0  B [          ] /proc
    0.0  B [          ] /sys
e   1.0KiB [          ] /mnt
e   1.0KiB [          ] /selinux
    2.0KiB [          ] /srv
    4.0KiB [          ] /dev
   10.5KiB [          ] /tmp
   25.0KiB [          ] /root
   26.0KiB [          ] /splash
  552.0KiB [          ] /run
    1.1MiB [          ] /scripts
    6.0MiB [          ] /etc
    6.2MiB [          ] /bin
    8.1MiB [          ] /sbin
   49.9MiB [          ] /boot
   62.8MiB [          ] /lib
  106.5MiB [          ] /var
  125.0MiB [          ] /opt
  568.6MiB [          ] /usr
  741.4MiB [          ] /home
  410.0GiB [##########] /media
 Total disk usage: 411.6GiB  Apparent size: 417.5GiB  Items: 79404

This was run with root privileges, the only thing I can think of is that there are hidden files somewhere. I'm not sure whether NCDU would pick the files up if they were hidden.
I can post the settings.json file, but I've uninstalled (including purge parameter) and reinstalled and modified some of the settings so they're obviously different to how they were before.

If I've left out anything obvious that might help please let me know. I'm reasonably computer competent but I'm very new to linux and am still getting my head around it.

[blacke4dawn]

Honestly, I can't really make heads or tails out of that one, I even installed it on my Gentoo system to check it out myself. Or at least run it with the -x option (excludes other filesystems).

If you have df (disc free) then I would like to see the output of that one since it reports total size as well as used and free amounts on each mount point. Personally though when I "hunt" for lost space I use the du utility to see how much each individual directory takes, and drill down one directory at a time in the bigger ones until I find one that shouldn't be as big as it is.

[RobM93]

This is the disk free readout. This would actually have been more useful from the beginning but I didn't know about it.

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Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2   7684096   2191020   5431636  29% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1     70561     51100     19462  73% /boot
/dev/sda1      732571644 428742332 303829312  59% /media/750GB Hard drive

This is more or less exactly the same as is displayed in the storage area on XBMC, except for some reason XBMC is telling me that the first of the three is 100% full. I'm really wondering if anyone else has had the same problem after downloading a few things on transmission and managed to solve it. It shouldn't be too much of a problem really, I seem to be able to write to the disk so the glitch is somewhere in the XBMC software rather than having anything to do with transmission or the pi itself.

[Dark-chyper]

i have the same problem

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Sys. fich.     Taille Util. Dispo Uti% Monté sur
rootfs           5,8G  5,5G     0 100% /
/dev/root        5,8G  5,5G     0 100% /
devtmpfs         211M     0  211M   0% /dev
tmpfs             44M  492K   44M   2% /run
tmpfs            5,0M     0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs             88M     0   88M   0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p5    60M   19M   41M  32% /boot
tmpfs             88M     0   88M   0% /tmp
/dev/sda1        459G  118G  318G  28% /media/USBHDD

watchdir and dowload/incoming direstory are on the usb disk

[blacke4dawn]

i have the same problem

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watchdir and dowload/incoming direstory are on the usb disk

Same what, that XBMC is reporting some partition as 100% full when it's not?

As long as Transmission can write to it and Transmission itself doesn't report it as full then there is nothing for the Transmission devs to do.