/ full?

[Carl Sappenfield]

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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