Compiled Linux-Kernel, crach, 40GB disk full, temp folder?

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As i was compilenig a Linux-Kernel on KDE neon GNU/Linux (upgrade to ubuntu 18.04/Linux-Kernel 4.20.5) the computer crashed and now my Linux pratition (40GB) is full. Where is the directory where the gcc compiler stores files while its compiling? I already cleand the partition with BleachBit but still 30GB data on the disk, it sould be around 9GB.

With a greeting

Thanks for the quick response. I fetched the k4dirstat an tryd to install...

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-

3.10/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137 (message):
  Could NOT find Gettext (missing: GETTEXT_MSGMERGE_EXECUTABLE
  GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE)

README:

Overview

See the wiki.

Building

First install Qt 5 and KDE Framework 5 headers. On Debian and its derivatives it can be done with:

libkf5coreaddons-dev \  libkf5i18n-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev
libkf5doctools-dev libkf5kio-dev ```

Then run [cmake](http://www.cmake.org):

    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/where/to/install
    make install

Bandoler

Posted 2019-01-28T17:40:17.213

Reputation: 9

You can easily find out what’s occupying space using ncdu or a similar tool. Since you have KDE, perhaps KDirStat. – Daniel B – 2019-01-28T17:44:38.623

OK, i got it.Its the: /usr/src/linux-4.20.5 directory, got 16.xxGB date in it. – Bandoler – 2019-01-28T18:47:44.887

If you have another suitable drive/partition elsewhere, you can do all your building there and just transfer the finished result to your root partition. It might take a few tweaks to tell the build apparatus to use another location, but it will prevent you from running out of space on your root partition. – Joe – 2019-02-04T18:41:28.320

fixed with the command: make clean – Bandoler – 2019-02-06T10:21:05.317

Answers

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A more generic solution would be to look for large directories and files.

du -hc / | sort -rh | less

will list disk usage of your root partition in human readable format with totals and then sort it into descending order putting the output into a pager so you can see it instead of having it all fly by. All the big stuff will be displayed first.

If there are a lot of restricted directories, this can be run with sudo so it can see into them as well.

If you need to run it on all of root or another large partition/file tree, it may take awhile to complete. The sort can't put anything out until it has all the input from du.

If you get a lot of error messages about not being able to examine restricted directories as a regular user, you can use 

du -hc / 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | less

to suppress the error messages.

Joe

Posted 2019-01-28T17:40:17.213

Reputation: 533

THX, i fixed it with the command: make clean – Bandoler – 2019-02-06T10:20:02.917

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