/ full?

[Jim Herrmann]

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