I risk it is. It makes no sense why the space for the mail client is getting full while the rest of the disk is nearly empty.

LibreOffice saves with no problem to the disk. The browser saves small files with no issue. Dowloading large files, on the other hand, returns a error of no available storage space.

I’m just backing up all the files and reinstalling the system.

I didn’t set a separate partition for mail. Thunderbird is in the general /home. But it appears to have reached a size of 6.1GB under imap/sent and that area is flagged as being out of space.

The email ocasionallly returns an error message of not having disk space available for new messages.

But when trying to make downloads to /home/downloads several have been aborted due to not having available space.

This makes no sense. With nearly 400GB of /home free, every user /home folder should just slowly fill that space as required/needed. But that is not what is happening. The free storage space is not being accessed

Thunderbird works. But I’m getting error messages about not having disk space available. When trying go make downloads, I get an error message from the browser. Using the disk analyzer in Mint, I can see the folder for Thunderbird and in there the ubfolder for the IMAP sent messages is full.

No reds

df -h returns the following

Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   12K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda6               9,1G  400K  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5                32G  9,5G   21G  32% /var
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs                   1,4G  136K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

/home has 371G free smartctl is not returning errors on the drive has well

With the memory chips getting the sharp uptick they are going through right now? Pass. Speed is not crucial for me. I don’t do any hardcore gaming nor run some speed critical apps. HDD’s cover my necessities.

df -h returns this

Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   12K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda6               9,1G  320K  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5                32G  9,5G   21G  32% /var
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs                   1,4G  140K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

the dmesg output is simply huge running the command threw me a slew of messages can you point to what I should be looking at?

I got my first warning when trying to download some large files and at some point the browser just returned a message saying the download was aborted for not having enough space available. Nothing else.

After running a disk scan, as I know the 500GB HDD is essentially empty, is when I find out the Thunderbird folder is full. And somehow it is causing the system to flag the entire disk has full.

This is the general use computer of the house and there are more users on the system but I have the largest amount of files on it as I’m the primary user.

Yes. Still haven’t tried it.

Yes. Although recently I started getting errors with downloads, with warning of not having disk space.

Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   16K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sda6               9,1G  4,2M  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda5                32G  9,6G   21G  32% /var
tmpfs                   1,4G  132K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

I don’t see any partition full.

Sistema de ficheiros Inodes  IUso ILivr UsoI% Montado em
tmpfs                  1,7M  1,2K  1,7M    1% /run
efivarfs                  0     0     0     - /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3              3,0M  750K  2,2M   26% /
tmpfs                  1,7M     1  1,7M    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  1,7M     7  1,7M    1% /run/lock
/dev/sda6              597K    41  597K    1% /tmp
/dev/sda2                 0     0     0     - /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1               30M  133K   29M    1% /home
/dev/sda5              2,1M   94K  2,0M    5% /var
tmpfs                  348K   136  348K    1% /run/user/1000

Here is the output. I don’t see anything taxed.

I always leave something to be said when I post… added to the post. Thank you.

I’m running Mint.