• Pop!_OS 22.04
  • on a 500GB SATA SSD
  • separate partitions with ext4 fs for the root and /home partitions.

I have Googled a lot, resized the home partition and filesystem a few times (from a liveboot USB) and run various analyzers but the problem persists.

Some output:

pop-os@pop-os:/media/pop-os$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sda3
resize2fs 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Please run 'e2fsck -f /dev/sda3' first.

pop-os@pop-os:/media/pop-os$ cd a358cafe-a2a3-46a4-ba33-0a82e88fb157/ && sudo ncdu || cd ../
pop-os@pop-os:/media/pop-os$ sudo lsblk /dev/sda3 -o size
 SIZE
 271G
pop-os@pop-os:/media/pop-os$ sudo e2fsck /dev/sda3
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda3: clean, 264256/17768448 files, 8195768/71048094 blocks
pop-os@pop-os:/media/pop-os$ df -h --out=size a358cafe-a2a3-46a4-ba33-0a82e88fb157/
 Size
 266G

ncdu, du show 62 GB and Steam says similarly that there is no space to install games.

When I resize the partition and filesystem, it does show less remaining size. Resizing back to 290 GB, the max is still ~62 GB total apparent space.

Any ideas before I nuke the partition and move my data into a fresh one?

  • Possibly linuxMEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I would unmount /home and verify that the directory is empty.

    On a unrelated note I have been using btrfs with subvolumes and it works pretty well

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Unfortunately, /home/myusername really does live on the big partition. When I mount root only (from the live ISO, mountedroot/home is empty @[email protected] @[email protected]

      I give up. I am nuking this partition and in the process hopefully resetting what is wrong with it, then dropping the 30GB of files back in from the backup.