/ full?
mike neuliep
mike at marauder.illiana.net
Mon Dec 2 17:39:20 CST 2002
One is reporting in 512k blocks while the other might be reporting in
1024k blocks? You might have to do a df -k or df -v depending on your
version.
Mike
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Carl Sappenfield wrote:
> Looking at your du and df outputs reminds me of something I've seen in AIX,
> which may apply to Linux...
> If I'm reading this right, du is implying you've only used about 2.5G in
> your / partition (/ less /home). df is saying it's almost 5.3G. In AIX,
> this can happen when, a file is deleted that a process is still writing to.
> The only way to get the space back is to shut down the process that was
> writing to the now non-existant file.
> I would just reboot and then see if du and df match.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Herrmann" <kclug at ItDepends.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 11:10 PM
> Subject: Re: / full?
>
>
> > DF shows this:
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1 5542276 5200152 60588 99% /
> > /dev/hda6 32676936 10252540 22424396 32% /home
> >
> > On Friday 29 November 2002 10:13 pm, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> > > Yes, most of my data is in /home/jim. That's where it should be!
> That's
> > > in the big partition. So, why does KDiskFree show my 5.3G / partition
> as
> > > 98.9% used (59.2M remaining), and my 31.2G /home partition as 31.4% used
> > > (21.4G remaining). Obviously there is some dicrepancy here.
> > >
> > > I have not downloaded anything to my root directory. There is one empty
> > > file called "1" in my root directory. No idea what that is or how it
> got
> > > there. Everything I download goes into /home/jim/Downloads, which is why
> > > it's so big. That's where ISOs are, RPMs, etc.
> > >
> > > In case I wasn't clear, I have a 40G drive with a 5.3G "/" partition,
> some
> > > swap space, and the rest is allocated to a "/home" partition. If 10 of
> my
> > > 12 gig of data is in the /home partition, how could my "/" show up as
> full?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > On Friday 29 November 2002 09:04 pm, zscoundrel wrote:
> > > > You have 4g in /home/jim/WindozeStuff (that includes 3.8g in
> ~/Cakewalk)
> > > > another 4.6g in /home/jim/Downloads
> > > >
> > > > If you add these together you get 8.5g which is all but 1.7g of the
> > > > total 10.2 of /home/jim
> > > >
> > > > >>648736 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Johnny
> > > > >>896260 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Flanders Field
> > > > >>949384 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk/WaveData
> > > > >>959580 /home/jim/mp3
> > > > >>991208 /usr/share
> > > > >>1567236 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk
> > > > >>2242956 /usr
> > > > >>3865684 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio
> > > > >>4051424 /home/jim/WindozeStuff
> > > > >>4652564 /home/jim/Downloads
> > > > >>10211116 /home/jim
> > > > >>10215744 /home
> > > > >>12665840 /
> > > >
> > > > IF you are looking for all your drive space, I would suspect most of
> it
> > > > was occupied by audio files.
> > > >
> > > > Keep in mind, the directory sizes are cumulative.
> > > > /home/jim/mp3 shows the 4.50g it contains, plus the 5.04g contained in
> > > > the sub directories. so the 12g in / is all the files in / plus the
> 10g
> > > > in /home. . .
> > > >
> > > > >>427068 /home/jim/mp3/weather_report/heavy_weather
> > > > >>427072 /home/jim/mp3/weather_report
> > > > >>514588 /home/jim/mp3/return_to_forever/romantic_warrior
> > > > >>514592 /home/jim/mp3/return_to_forever
> > > > >>959580 /home/jim/mp3
> > > > >>
> > > > >>648736 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Johnny
> > > > >>896260 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Flanders Field
> > > > >>949384 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk/WaveData
> > > > >>648736 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Johnny
> > > > >>896260 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Flanders Field
> > > > >>949384 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk/WaveData
> > > > >>1567236 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk
> > > > >>3865684 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio
> > > > >>4051424 /home/jim/WindozeStuff
> > > > >>4652564 /home/jim/Downloads
> > > > >>10211116 /home/jim
> > > > >>10215744 /home
> > > > >>12665840 /
> > > >
> > > > So, almost 2 thirds of your drive is occupied by /WindozeStuff and
> > > > /Downloads.
> > > >
> > > > Aaron wrote:
> > > > > Have you done alot of downloading and stored everything in your
> /root
> > > > > directory?
> > > > >
> > > > > Aaron
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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