RAM free space decreases without doing anything

[otropogo]

A couple of days ago I was watching a video online with Seamonkey 2.0/Gxine under Puppy 4.3.1 in full screen mode, and discovered I'd lost control of the system.

I couldn't get out of full screen mode with the ESC key, couldn't pause the video, etc. . I resorted to a hard reboot via the reset button on the system. I then noticed that the number in my available space window (xxxfree) had diminished from 456M to 2xxM. My understanding is that this represents the amount of space left in my 2fs file.

I've tried searching for a 200MB file or a number of somewhat smaller ones in my system folders, but haven't been able to find anything that fits the bill.

The only malware scanner I've got on this system is xfprot.

Any suggestions on where or how I should look for the unwanted file(s) for deletion?

[JaDy]

Here's the message I get occasionally:

WARNING: RAM working space only 1 MB,
recommend a reboot which will flush the RAM

But, it has no obvious consequences.,

[Aitch]

Otropogo

Sounds like corrupt filesystem

Try Menu > system > Gparted > [select device] > partition > check

Also see fsck, if you have a frugal install, I think you edit the menu list

e.g. Add pfix=fsck into the kernel /puppy431/vmlinuz ... line.

Aitch

[otropogo]

Otropogo

Sounds like corrupt filesystem

Try Menu > system > Gparted > [select device] > partition > check

Also see fsck, if you have a frugal install, I think you edit the menu list

e.g. Add pfix=fsck into the kernel /puppy431/vmlinuz ... line.

Aitch

Followed your suggestion, targeting the drive where my 2fs file resides. Geprated falgged it with the exclamation triangle, and said it was unable to read the filesystem. I then directed it to repair the filesystem.

Gparted laboured extensively, but finally announced success:

GParted 0.4.5

Libparted 1.8.8
Check and repair file system (fat32) on /dev/sdb2 00:07:18 ( SUCCESS )

calibrate /dev/sdb2 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sdb2
start: 80100090
end: 243416879
size: 163316790 (77.88 GiB)
check file system on /dev/sdb2 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )

dosfsck -a -w -v /dev/sdb2

dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
open /dev/sdb2:No such file or directory
grow file system to fill the partition 00:07:17 ( SUCCESS )

using libparted

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However, after rebooting and accessing Gparted again, the same error message displays

And I'm still missing 150+MB of 2fs storage space the content of which I can't locate or identify.

[Béèm]

You should do the fsck at the 2fs file. But it may not be mounted.