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The issue at hand: My /var/tmp folder is stacking up on literary hundreds of folders called "container_images_storage_xxxxxxxxxx", where the x's present a random number. Each folder contains the following files called 1, 2 and 3 as seen in thumbnail. Each folder seems to increase in size too, as the lowest I can see is the size of 142.2 MiB, but the highest 2.1GB. This is a problem as it is taking up all my disk space, and even if I do delete them, they come back the next day... I believe this has something to do with podman, but I'm really not quite sure. All I use the PC for is browsing and gaming.

Is there a way to figure out where a file or folder is coming from on Linux? I've tried stat and file, but neither gave me any worthwhile information AFAIK. Would really appreciate some help to figure what causes this, I am still new to the Linux desktop and have no idea what is causing this issue. I am on atomic desktop, using Bazzite:latest.

stat:

stat 1
  File: 1
  Size: 1944283388	Blocks: 3797432    IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 0,74	Inode: 10938462619658088921  Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------)  Uid: ( 1000/    buzz)   Gid: ( 1000/    buzz)
Context: system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0
Access: 2024-05-06 12:18:37.444074823 +0200
Modify: 2024-05-06 12:22:51.026500682 +0200
Change: 2024-05-06 12:22:51.026500682 +0200
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file

file 1
1: gzip compressed data, original size modulo 2^32 2426514442 gzip compressed data, reserved method, ASCII, extra field, encrypted, from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT), original size modulo 2^32 2426514442
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, did that the other day but they still came back unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have any containers? Do you use homebrew?

Please report this to ublue as if this is an actual problem, it might be important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do not have any containers afaik, docker is not installed and podman ps --all gives zero results. I do use hombrew a little, have the following installed;

$ brew list
berkeley-db@5  exiftool  expat	gdbm  libxcrypt  perl  uchardet

I have reported this over a week ago, in their help section, but have not gotten a lot of help with it, even though I have tried to document the process as much as possible. If I dont get any more help there, I'll try to report it to the appropriate ublue channels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe open a Github issue

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues

I think this is the correct way to report stuff like that.

Instead of showing podman processes, list all containers. There may be some. But I really have the feeling this is homebrew

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

might well be, I had one Fedora box through toolbox, but deleted that. But they still appear, so thats ruled out too. I dont use homebrew that much, so I could try to remove it to see if that changes anything.

Also, Podman --help states that ps is to list containers:

ps List containers

I have removed all containers and images prior to this as I thought that was the issue, but it seems like it is not.