I am running ubuntu-mate 16.04.1. I partitioned my harddrive so that my root (/) partition is 60 GB. Periodically during the day the Disk Usage Analyzer will pop up saying that I am running out of space in the / partition. In checking there will be over 50GB of files in the tmp folder. Of course, these are cleared out when I reboot. Is this a possible bug in ubuntu 16.04? I have read the other posts relating to this question, but no one is addressing why Ubuntu is putting 50+GB of files (almost 10,000 folders @ 5MB/folder) in the tmp folder when all I’ve done is watch one 170MB video. Is this something I should fill out a bug report for? Thanks, Jim
In rechecking, all of the folders begin with the name “atril-thumbnailer-???”. The ??? representing a series of 4 or 5 digit numbers. I know that “Atril” is the pdf document viewer. Why would the pdf document viewer be putting 50GB of temporary files in the tmp folder when I’m watching a video?