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My free space disk is disappearing continously

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(Ubuntu 18.04) I had about 8GB free space in my hard drive of 250GB and 2 hours later have disappeared. I can see this with left mouse button properties in any file of my /home. The hard drive is flashing like some sort of process is literally eating or hiding space. What can I do? Maybe is a bad software update? I mean unfinished update?

Edit: The process have finished and any /home shows 0 bytes free space in my hard drive.

in flag
Have you checked your log files to see if something is misconfigured/broken?
Maiquel332 avatar
cn flag
The problem is very similar to this one: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128162/ubuntu-eats-space-on-disk?rq=1 But I don't have fixed partitions. I installed 18.04 a long time ago with by default settings. My /temp shows files not accesible
Maiquel332 avatar
cn flag
Do you think is the same problem? Or should I try checking an specific log file?
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The simplest option would be to start with looking at the file sizes in `/var/log`, which is where many services and applications write their logs. If you see any files that are gigabytes in size, that’s a problem. You will need to then check that file (using `tail` to read the end of the log) to see why the log is growing and filling your disk.
Maiquel332 avatar
cn flag
(SOLVED). Touche. hahahaha. My minidlna.log server is 54GB, I Think I can delete it without any problem. Thanks a lot, a lot, a lot
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Maiquel332 avatar
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(SOLUTION) As matigo said: I went to /var/log and look at the bigger file sizes. I have a minidlna server for movies in my SmartTV from the Ubuntu. Minidlna log gone crazy because I unplugged a external drive. So the log was showing the missing database error creation. It appeared minidlna.log file of 54GB. And I removed the file rm /var/log/minidlna.log
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