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I am now running root in single user mode since my root partition hda5 is full for whatever reason.
I recently formatted an external HDU 80GB and mounted it by error in /sda80 instead of under /mnt/sda1 which would be more normal.
All of a sudden I can no longer start KDE or GNOME since my root partition is full.
I have run du --max-depth=1 and gets all directories and sizes listed in /
All look fine
/home is big but that is on another partition.
/mnt is big because my windows partition is mounted here
/usr is big because of /usr/share and /usr/lib (can I clear something here?)
Most concerning is that
du --max-depth=1 ends up listing a big thing with 64G size but only description is .
*Your /proc folder seems to be a bit on the big side. I don't think I've seen one quite that big before... it could just have something to do with your set up, I'm not sure.
*You seem to have a crapload of stuff sitting around as loose files in your / folder. If you do the math and add up everything in the folders on your root partition, they only add up to a little over 4 gigs, but df says that you're using 5.5. That means you must have at least a gig of space being used up by regular files in / and not in folders. I don't know about you, but I've only got 3 files in / and they're all very tiny. That'd be a good place to check. Maybe you copied something huge there on accident.
*Your root partition is a bit on the small side. I'd suggest using one a bit bigger in the future. If you ended up installing a few big games or something like that it might take up a couple gigs or so, so it's nice to give yourself space to expand.
I found out what it was - I accidentally mounted an external USB HDU and copied files to it. Only thing is that that the mount folder did not take me to the device so instead of copying to the HDU I was copying to the root directory.
*Your /proc folder seems to be a bit on the big side. I don't think I've seen one quite that big before... it could just have something to do with your set up, I'm not sure.
That's perfectly normal - it seems roughly dependent on the amount of RAM you have in the machine. So on my machine at work (1GB RAM) the proc folder is about 900MB, on the one at home (~750 MB RAM) its 739MB. Anyway it doesn't matter because its a virtual filesystem anyway - it takes up zero disk space no matter how big it appears.
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