ghost partition

From	Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	ghost partition
Date	2016-05-09 01:50 +0200
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Every once in a while I get a filled root partition, and the reason in
each case is different. In the present case it seems that /dev/sde1
serves as the interface for something very large, even though the
/dev/sde1 interface does not exist and is not mounted.

# ncdu -rx /
  425.5MiB [##########]  sde1                                                  $
  198.3MiB [####      ] /lib
  193.8MiB [####      ] /mnt
  ...

$ mount | grep sde
[nothing]

# ls -la | grep sde
brw-rw---T   1 root   floppy      8,  64 May  8 11:15 sde

So the /dev/sde1 interface does not exist, but nevertheless du can access
it. 

How can I remove what has attached itself to /dev/sde1?

Haines Brown

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ghost partition Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-09 01:50 +0200
  Re: ghost partition Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2016-05-09 03:00 +0200
    Re: ghost partition Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-09 12:50 +0200
      Re: ghost partition Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2016-05-09 13:10 +0200
        Re: ghost partition Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-09 14:50 +0200
          Re: ghost partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-09 15:00 +0200
            Re: ghost partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-09 15:20 +0200
              Re: ghost partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-09 15:40 +0200
                Re: ghost partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-09 16:00 +0200
                Re: ghost partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-09 16:20 +0200
                Re: ghost partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-09 17:00 +0200
                Re: ghost partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-09 17:20 +0200
                Re: ghost partition Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-09 21:00 +0200
  Re: ghost partition Juergen Bausa <Juergen.Bausa@online.de> - 2016-05-09 09:40 +0200

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