Can somebody please tell me what the first line of this df -h output means? It looks like the path /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 had eaten up my whole hard-drive, but I'm still VERY green around Linux. Is there any way to fix this so my hard-drive is not reported as full ?

Thanks in advance for the help !!



root@FTP etc]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
18G 17G 0 100% /
/dev/hdb1 58G 37G 21G 64% /mnt/share
/dev/hda1 99M 13M 82M 13% /boot
none 315M 0 315M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdd1 58G 39G 19G 68% /mnt/backup

Its part of RedHat's LVM Partition Management. I would suggest you read up on LVM. I don't know much about this, but I don't think its a big problem. There is a known issue about it reporting correctly.

Thanks mlangdn. I have no idea where the dev/VolGroup00 stuff came from.


Can you take a look at my fstab file and let me know if you think I'm going to run into a problem if I change the first line to :
LABEL = / / ext3 defaults 1 1

and change the swap back to

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0


Like it was before.




/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/share vfat auto,rw,uid=123 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/backup vfat auto,rw,uid=123 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,managed 0 0

Your system will not boot if you change the fstab entry for “/” to LABEL=/. The LABEL= format only works with partitions, because it refers to the partition's name/label. A LVM logical volume is not a partition.

Without seeing “fdisk -l” for your system, it's hard to predict what changing the swap designation will do, but the outcome will likely be undesirable.

For more information about LVMs, look at the LVM HowTo here http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...LVM-HOWTO.html

Chapter 11. “Common Tasks” is very useful.

Here is the fdisk output.


[root@FTP boot]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 2434 19446682+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdb: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 7476 60050938+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/hdd: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 119150 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 119150 60051568+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

hda1 is not formatted as swap and cannot be used as swap. hda1 is probably /boot.

It doesn’t sound like you understand partition usage. A good place to learn about partition usage is the Partition HowTo: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...Partition.html