nautilus-wipe fill all disc with filesystem in ~/tmp.RANDOMCHARS

Bug #2090513 reported by Johannes
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Bug Description

#My fix - Solution: booted with root prompt: rm -r /home/username/tmp.*

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, 480 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, i7 8 core CPU ...

I installed nautilus-wipe and restarted PC.

When opened Nautilus and right-clicked and choose "Wipe availible discspace" the software filled my SSD by creating a filesystem in /home/myusername/tmp.SOMERAMDOMCHARS .
My PC very soon started to malfunction and I tried to stop Wipe by clicking abort, but it did not work and after some time I restarted PC.

PC did not boot normally, trying to clean disc, but after starting in advanced mode with root prompt I could remove the 142 GB data in the ~/tmp.SOMERA... folder.

With free space availible the PC booted normally.

My history log from root session that solved the issue for me:
    ...
   # df -lh
   # du -sh /*
   # du -sh /home/*
   # du -sh /home/username/*
   # rm -r /home/username/tmp.Ajpf1YQcax
   # du -sh /*
   # df -lh
   # reboot

Johannes (m-johannes)
summary: - nautilus-wipe fill all disc filt filesystem in ~/tmp.RANDOMCHARS
+ nautilus-wipe fill all disc with filesystem in ~/tmp.RANDOMCHARS
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
Johannes (m-johannes)
description: updated
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