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I noticed this warning because it stops one of my applications (BOINC) from being able to work on a number of BOINC projects.

The 'Low Disk Space' warning says that I have 1.1GB remaining. I cannot work out where that number comes from.

The OS is installed on sda1 which is a 256GB SSD.

I use a HDD sdb1 of 1000GB (984.4GB formatted) to store my own bits and bobs.

I've been looking for the problem but I'm obviously out of my depth.

sda1 shows in Properties as having 31.8GB used with 151.2GB free.

sdb1 shows in Properties as having 375.2GB used with 559.2GB free.

What the devil is going on?

el_gallo_azul
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  • I took 5 relevant screenshots but I can't find anywhere to attach them. – el_gallo_azul Jan 17 '14 at 07:04
  • upload the screenshots to imgur.com and then provide the links here. – Avinash Raj Jan 17 '14 at 07:51
  • What is the output of df -h? – Bruno Pereira Jan 17 '14 at 07:55
  • Output from df -h:

    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 204G 52G 142G 27% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 16G 4.0K 16G 1% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 1.3M 3.2G 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 16G 404K 16G 1% /run/shm none 100M 52K 100M 1% /run/user /dev/sdb1 917G 350G 521G 41% /media/sdb1 el_gallo_azul@greg-W2600CR:~$

     – el_gallo_azul Jan 18 '14 at 06:18
  • I hope that this link to imgur works:

    http://imgur.com/a/fvy3R

     – el_gallo_azul Jan 18 '14 at 06:24
  • That 'df -h' posting is worthless. I'll do it again and add a screenshot to imgur....http://imgur.com/dSErjTh – el_gallo_azul Jan 21 '14 at 04:29
  • Anyone got any ideas? – el_gallo_azul Jan 26 '14 at 01:23
  • Is this df -h output from the time when you receive the error message? Does the error message pop-up just after boot, or it pops up later on, while your softwares (e.g. BOINC) is been working for a while? – falconer Jan 27 '14 at 11:35
  • This df -h output is from after one instance of receiving the Low Disk Space warning message, and before another one (the next day).

    I haven't received that message for more than a week, probably because I stopped running nearly all projects on BOINC, in order to reduce the number of write cycles and warnings occurring while I try to solve this mystery.

     – el_gallo_azul Jan 28 '14 at 02:20
  • Also, to answer your second question, I remember the warning message as appearing shortly after boot, and I can't be sure whether it was related to BOINC running for a period of time first. – el_gallo_azul Jan 30 '14 at 02:28

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Installing Bleachbit from the Software Centre and ticking the necessary scan boxes will help clean up your hard-drive's junk and temp files and save you some much needed space...

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