| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
linuxpyro
Apprentice
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
Posts: 255
|
 Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject: 100% Disk Usage? |
 |
|
I logged into my Gentoo box today, and opened Evolution like I normally do. I got an error saying there was no more space left. I ran df -h, and it reported that my /home partition (hda4) had 69 GB out of the 73 GB I had sized the partition for. I searched the forums, and fround that on the ext3 file system, which I am using, this is normal, as root needs about 5% of the capacity of each partition. So, I started deleting a bunch of extra files. In Nautilus, I navigated to the /home directory, right-clicked on my folder, and chose properties to see how much space it took up. It read 45 GB, well under my previous figure of 69.
However, it also said that there were only 356.3 MB of free space left. So, I ran df -h. However, the output was still showing disk usage of 69 GB, at 100%:
| Code: |
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 37G 16G 20G 46% /
/dev/hda1 69M 17M 49M 26% /boot
/dev/hda4 73G 69G 357M 100% /home
none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
|
I'm not running any quotas on my system. Does anyone know what is causing this? I am using a 120 GB Western Digital HD.
Thanks for any info.. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
nahpets
Veteran
Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 1178
Location: Montreal, Canada
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Are you sure the files you deleted weren't simply moved to a trash folder which you need to empty manually? I had 100% usage once and using the "rm" command from Bash worked fine -> "df -h" gave me the correct output right away.
_________________
Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bollucks
l33t
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Posts: 606
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Some filesystems (eg ext3) reserve some space for root to use only. tune2fs will allow you to alter the amount. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
linuxpyro
Apprentice
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
Posts: 255
|
| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: |
|
|
| nahpets wrote: | | Are you sure the files you deleted weren't simply moved to a trash folder which you need to empty manually? I had 100% usage once and using the "rm" command from Bash worked fine -> "df -h" gave me the correct output right away. |
My God, I feel stupid. I forgot about the Trash icon. Thanks for pointing that out; next time I will remember that.
I think I will try to tune the file system too. Thank you both.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nahpets
Veteran
Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 1178
Location: Montreal, Canada
|
| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: |
|
|
| linuxpyro wrote: | | nahpets wrote: | | Are you sure the files you deleted weren't simply moved to a trash folder which you need to empty manually? I had 100% usage once and using the "rm" command from Bash worked fine -> "df -h" gave me the correct output right away. |
My God, I feel stupid. I forgot about the Trash icon. Thanks for pointing that out; next time I will remember that.
I think I will try to tune the file system too. Thank you both. |
I think that's an easy mistake to make...  If you delete your files from "bash", there's no trashcan, but I guess all the advanced file managers have a "Recycle Bin" for undeleting files. You just have to figure out whether it's turned on or not.
_________________
Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
Kernel & Hardware
