no hdd space

kernel-P4N1C · 08-25-2010, 09:28 PM

I'm concern about my poor choices here as im completly lost.

my main desktop computer started to act erratically... to cut the middle stuff... df -h shows that my /dev/root partition is full

i had made only one partition where the whole "/" folder is mounted

cleared the logs
erased some things and moved some stuff to another partition as i have the /home folder there and it still the same.

please advice

kernel-P4N1C · 08-25-2010, 09:43 PM

this is the bash output

Quote:

bash-4.1# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 28G 27G 0 100% /
/dev/sda4 357G 195M 339G 1% /mnt/stuff
/dev/sdb1 459G 318G 119G 73% /mnt/download
/dev/sda2 76G 34G 42G 45% /mnt/win
/dev/sda1 100M 25M 76M 25% /mnt/syswin
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm

Drakeo · 08-25-2010, 10:04 PM

this happened to me a long time ago with slack 10.2 it was my cdrom I had 2 and one had failed and it would keep creating a log after log. Till finally I booted one time and it said sorry hard drive full . If you can check your /var/log files you probably will find a huge folder.
if so check your dmesg and find where the error is. or read the log.
and delete it.

kernel-P4N1C · 08-25-2010, 11:13 PM

i already found the log...
an external hdd that was mounted and aparently unmounted several times

anyhow.. now i'm with another issue... i deleted the whole /var/log folder in order to look for space without thinking on the /packages folder...

so no /var/log/packages = no more updates for me unless a clean install... wich is what i wanted to avoid anyways
I'm already moving around my data.

MadMaverick9 · 08-25-2010, 11:22 PM

Dear kernel-P4N1C,

If you do a clean install anyways, then I'd recommend you re-partition your hard drive to include a seperate "/var" partition. This will avoid problems like your root or home partition filling up and maybe not letting you login anymore.

Quote:

rmjansen@birdy01:~/ > df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 29G 7.6G 20G 28% /
/dev/sda1 479M 38M 417M 9% /boot
/dev/sda7 5.8G 393M 5.1G 7% /var
/dev/sda8 111G 53G 53G 51% /home
/dev/sda9 16G 1.2G 14G 8% /opt
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm

Hope this helps to avoid future problems.

Also - this setup makes it easy to re-install slackware if needed. Keep in mind to save any changes you have made in "/etc".