Paperspace, out of disk space due to /dev/mapper/dev/dev--u16--cpu--v-root

[Spoetnik1]

My paperspace Ubuntu machine is complaining due to a full disk. I do not have a lot of data so that is a bit strange.

I ran ‘df -h’ to check where the data is used:

So some /dev/mapper/dev/dev–u16–cpu–v-root file is eating up all the space. Trying to find out what this actually is I ‘ls -l’ it

So some dev/dm-0 file is taking up a lot of disk space. How can I fix this?

Thank you

EDIT:

I have been on the hunt for what uses this storage space.

So something in the home folder

Digging deeper, into the paperspace folder, which is a dead end. What is in in there that uses all this space but doesn’t show itself? Also ‘ls -l’ has no results.

I am getting pretty desperate at this point.

[Priit]

I had a similar issue just a few days ago. For me it came up because I had started with low memory and later upgraded and had not mapped the additional space inside the VM.

How do I expand my disk after a storage upgrade?

Not sure if its the same case with you. Anyway, support was quite fast to help out.

[Spoetnik1]

Thanks for the reply, but I haven’t upgraded. In general I have used very little space and all the standard temporary folders, logs and user data looks pretty normal.

I’ll try send paperspace a message and see what they have to say about it.

[Subhanandh]

I had the same issue. Thank you for posting the link and that saved me.

[wzi]

Have you solved the problem? I encountered the exact same problem and I did not upgrade.

[britton]

Hey I’m also having a similar problem- any updates? Did you figure out what was eating all your storage in the paperspace file?

[britton]

What finally worked for me was emptying the trash files:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

I have had this exact same problem a bunch of times, and keep forgetting that this worked the last time. I never actually realized that linux had trash files like this that needed ‘emptying’? Anyway, hope this helps someone