Comment by 1970-01-01

3 hours ago

This is the kind of tool that should be baked into the kernel. It's never there when you need it, and when you do need it, it is probably already a full disk and you maybe can't just download it.

Had this happen to me just last week. Had forgotten to change the “to download into” directory in an GOG archive script after migration to a new system. Filled a folder on the system disk instead of my intended ZFS array.

Naturally ncdu wasn’t installed, so it took me a bit to figure out what the heck happened.

It’s interesting and ironic how so many things in proxmox that would normally release space, instead become nonfunctional when the disk is full. Things like deleting old VM disks or cached iso’s will fail via the interface. I think the web console also broke, had to ssh in to manually free space up.