From: gsh@iti.org (Gregory S. Halbrook) Subject: Re: Linux says hd's out of room: IMPOSSIBLE Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 12:12:43 GMT
bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) writes:
>I have a 100 meg hard drive that I totally dedicated to linux yesterday
>but when I paritioned it, I received a message that said I couldn't use
>some 85000 blocks of this partition. I found the message in the FAQ list
>and it said to ignore it.
>Anyway, all I have on there is the SLS a1-a4 disks and maybe another 2 meg
>of stuff I've collected in the last 24 hours. Not even near 100 meg (we're
>talking light years away from 100 meg).
>I was d/ling something to my terminal (because DIP isn't working yet ?!@#)
>and I ran out of space. df /dev/hdb showed:
>Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hdb 109823 109474 0 100%
>After running fdisk /dev/hdb and displaying the partition table I have:
>Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System
>/dev/hdb1 1 1 832 109823+ 83 Linux Extfs
>I think I'm going to compile my own FAQ for newbies from a newbie perspective
>because I have a new problem about every hour :)
I had a similar problem a while back. My file system kept getting full and
I couldn't understand why. Of course, I blamed the new kernel I had just
installed ;-) but it turned out that because of an error *I* made in the
networking software my system logs were just filling up with error messages.
I was literally watching a partition size shrink using a repeated df command.
Check in /usr/adm for any really large files. I had like 3 or so 20 meg files.
Just a though...