/ full?

[Jim Herrmann]

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
>