Strange free space value shown by SABnzbd

[royha99]

The SABnzbd display says I have "7.7 GB Free Space (Temp Folder)". This is interesting, because Nemo says my SSD has 816.8 GB free. And, sure enough, when I try to download something larger than 7.7 GB, SABnzbd eventually stops, saying the disk is full.

Any idea what might be causing SABnzbd to report, and use, so little of my SSD's free space? And, maybe, how I can get it to use more of that free space?

I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.2 on a Dell small form factor PC. If you need more details on my computer configuration, just ask (and, if you would, please give me the command(s) to run to get that information). Thanks!

[OneCD]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

What is the free-space of the block device holding your temporary folder?

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df -h

What is the present location of your temporary folder? This can be found in the SABnzbd settings.

[royha99]

Thank you for replying, OneCD.

Here is the result of df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.6G 3.4M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 879G 74G 761G 9% /
tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
/dev/sda1 511M 6.1M 505M 2% /boot/efi
/dev/md0 29T 9.8T 18T 36% /mnt/md0
tmpfs 1.6G 6.8M 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000

The present location of my temporary folder
Temp/Incoming

And, yes, the Temp/Incoming folder is alive and well in my home folder.

If you need anything else, just let me know!

[OneCD]

And where is your home folder located?

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df -h $HOME

It appears your /dev/shm (a temporary path used by the OS and created in RAM) is the same size as reported by SABnzbd. I suspect your temporary folder is actually on that RAMdisk.

[royha99]

Here is the result of df -h $HOME

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 879G 74G 761G 9% /

As for my Temp folder, I don't know how it could have wound up on the tmpfs. I created the folder using either Nemo or the command line (I forget which).

[OneCD]

Try this one too (please correct the path if it’s wrong):

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df -h $HOME/Temp/Incoming

[royha99]

Here is the result of df -h $HOME/Temp/Incoming

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 879G 74G 761G 9% /

I have seen some evidence (that I struggle to reproduce) that SABnzbd is using /run/user/1000 for some reason I can't understand or control, and /run/user/1000 *is* using tmpfs. How would I find out if that folder is being used? Log files, perhaps?

[OneCD]

Yes, you could also watch that folder as SABnzbd is running and see if anything is written to it.

[safihre]

Try to use a full path instead of a relative path in the sabnzbd Config. Maybe that helps?