I installed debian 3.1 from 2 purchased dvd's a week ago & have had nothing but problems (see my posts in the last week).

I installed the 2.4.27 kernel in a 4.3g root part & a 500m home part. I then added the 2.6.8 kernel & did a lot of kernel compiling & apt-getting.

last night I got an out of disk space msg. I did apt-get clean & then dpkg -P on about 6 kernel images that were installed & moved a few files to the home part. After all that df shows the root as 4229840 bytes with 4141020 used, 0% available & 100% used.

I looked into ls & found a sort by size switch (ls -1sSh /*) the output of which is as follows:

/lost+found:
total 0

/bin:
total 3.3M

/boot:
total 18M
3.5M initrd.img-2.6.8.050704
3.5M initrd.img-2.6.8.050706b
1.3M vmlinuz-2.6.8.050706b
1.3M initrd.img-2.4.27.050705
1.3M initrd.img-2.4.27.050707c
1.3M vmlinuz-2.4.27.050705
1.3M vmlinuz-2.4.27.050707c
1.2M vmlinuz-2.6.8.050704
880K System.map-2.6.8.050706b
848K System.map-2.6.8.050704
592K System.map-2.4.27.050705
592K System.map-2.4.27.050707c
48K config-2.6.8.050706b
48K config-2.6.8.050704
44K config-2.4.27-2-k7
44K config-2.4.27-2-686-smp
28K config-2.4.27.050707c
28K config-2.4.27.050705
4.0K grub

/cdrom:
total 0

/etc:
total 1.2M

/initrd:
total 0

/lib:
total 4.2M

/media:
total 24K

/mnt:
total 20K

/opt:
total 0

/root:
total 48K

/sbin:
total 5.8M

/srv:
total 0

/store:
total 972K

/temp:
total 104K

/tmp:
total 24K

/usr:
total 100K

/var:
total 48K

/dev:
total 0

/home:
total 14K

/proc:
total 897M
897M kcore

/sys:
total 0

I deleted most of the individual file info for brevity. By my calc this only adds up to about 930m. Also that 897m kcore file in proc looks strange & /usr looks a little sparse.

This has become such a mess I've decided to merge my home & root partitions & try a reinstall.

Just thought I'd throw this out there to see if any gurus have some ideas about whats going on.

You might want to make your home partition a little bigger.

I only have two partitions on my drive swap(1GB) and everything else(29GB). I know its not the smartest thing. But it was the easiest and fastest. I figure as long as I do backups on a regular basis I am ok.

My user home folder is almost 5 GB, granted I have been running this system since November 2004 and I have a ton of docs and other things in my home folder.

what does

$ df -h

give?

Well I booted back into debian to do a df -h & couldn't log in cause it couldnt write some file-out of disk space.

Earlier I realized I had forgotten to include the a & R switch in my ls command & wrote that to a file, 4mb worth, thats what probably did it. There a hell of a lot of files & subdirs in there, but the file is so huge I haven't been able to glean any useful info from it-yet. I copied it to my data part so I can study it later.

I did boot into kanotix (man, its nice to have a linux where everything works!) & did a df -h there. It showed 3.0 G used, 2.6 G / 54% available space, which is more like it. theres something bad wrong with my debian install.

Cragevil, I'm going to go with just a root part like in kanotix. As I recall my debian home part was only about 15% used, course that could change with time, but until I get everything working I always log in as root anyway. And I can always rearrange/reinstall. I'm sure I'll get a lot of practice with that in debian.