And after using the computer for another hour or two yesterday, it locked up; the pointer still tracked the mouse, but I couldn't click on anything or get any response from the keyboard.  I got a new SSD last week that's waiting to be installed, so I'll probably punt and do a fresh OS install when I do that.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 1:21 PM brad <bkn@ithryn.net> wrote:

On Jul 29, 2018, at 16:51, Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:

Now it's cleared itself up; I've got 443.9GB free space in my Home folder. 
I guess it just needed some time to refresh the filesystem?

sort of …

Some — perhaps all — filesystems will not actually delete the data if there is a running process which has the file open. In your case ~/.xsession-errors is a file that X uses to log errors, so if you were running a GUI that file probably will not get deleted until X restarts. 


On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 4:25 PM Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:
I found today that my Home folder is full.  The culprit seems to have been a roughly 1/2 terabyte .xsession-errors file.  I deleted it, but 'emptying the trash' didn't seem to be clearing any space.  I found that everything I'd thought I'd deleted recently seemed to still be sitting in $uname/.local/share/Trash.  I selected everything in that folder and typed shift+delete.  Now nothing shows in the Trash folder, but my Home folder is still full.  I rebooted, and that's still the case.  What now?

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Debian-Precision:~$ uname -a
Linux Debian-Precision 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Rich
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