SD Card fills, cannot determine why and where are the offending files

[jsalsburg]

I recently upgraded the lens on my camera and had trouble with the monitor to administrate the RPi on my workbench. This caused the External SSD in the operating system to malfunction. The next day several things in the AllSky Software stopped working. I noticed the SD Card was full. I deleted the Journal entries but that only bought me a few hours before the SD Card filled to 100%. I searched for hours and cannot determine why this is happening or where the offending file of files are that are suddenly causing this problem after months of operation.

[chvvkumar]

Try these commands to drill down to what's taking up the most space. This is on my Pi5:

# Get the largest five folders
du -hs * | sort -rh | head -5
27G	allsky
1.9G	MLCloudPriv
1.6G	Projects
1.1G	indi-allsky
55M	Bookshelf

# Get the largest five folders
du -Sh | sort -rh | head -5
1.6G	./allsky/images/20241111
1.6G	./allsky/images/20241110
1.5G	./allsky/images/20241109
1.5G	./allsky/images/20241107
1.5G	./allsky/images/20241105

# Get the largest five files in the folder you are in. This is from when I run it from the root (/) directory but can be run in any folder
find -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
637M	./MLCloudPriv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tensorflow/libtensorflow_cc.so.2
222M	./.cache/pip/http/1/c/1/c/7/1c1c7083aa18c8955c1b92c171d623eaa201a7ad590200a581a2ad66
222M	./.cache/pip/http-v2/1/c/1/c/7/1c1c7083aa18c8955c1b92c171d623eaa201a7ad590200a581a2ad66.body
214M	./.cache/pip/http/2/f/2/f/d/2f2fd1d2b64925ffc8b788d6e497b136af116b93cc8ab5477beda1f4
170M	./MLCloudPriv/mlCloudDetect.keras

[EricClaeys]

Try running cd; du -h -s *
It will tell you how much disk space each item in your home directory is using, including allsky. I suspect you have a lot of days worth of images and may want to decrease DAYS_TO_KEEP.

[jsalsburg]

Turns out the RPi is not working. Even with a new SD Card, it refuses to display through the HDMI Ports. So I ordered a new RPi4.