I'm currently having a problem with a certain partition in my machine, I have already tried deleting 1.8GB to 2gb of unnecessary data to free up disk space in a 4.1GB partition, and it appears that the disk space has not yet been freed up. The partition is mounted on /usr and when I do du -csh /usr, it reflects 1.6GB of used space but when I do df -h it shows 100% disk usage though /usr partition only uses up 1.6 GB of disk space, how have you worked around this thing?

Have you tried to save to /usr ? Did it work or was there an error ? I guess I'm asking if the space really is available, and just being misreported by df. Maybe someone has said this before, but are you sure you want to be using gentoo on a system that might be a little short on disk space ?

Best of luck...

David

hi!, yes, I have tried saving some stuff in /usr and there's an error stating something like there's lack of diskspace. Anyway the problem has been solved already, I found that upon executing the shutdown script of Apache-tomcat, there are still java process running writing into the /usr partition when I tried to verify process status (ps), a reason why df has been misreporting the size available for /usr partition, what I did is, I just did a 'killall java' command and it all did the trick, btw, it's a Fedora system. It's the first time I have encountered such a problem. Anyways, at least, now I know...