/ full?
Jim Herrmann
kclug at ItDepends.com
Sat Nov 30 05:10:04 CST 2002
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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