Hi,

Try "updatedb" and then check df -h again.

Thanks
Arun

Check if the external drive is really mounted on /media/some_external_drive/ where "some_external_drive" is the real name of this external drive. You can check this with the command "mount" in a terminal. What you probably do is that you store your data meant to store externally ends up in /media and (thus stored local on /dev/sda6) and not in /media/some_external_drive/ outside your Linux-box

Try

There is no external hard drive mounted on the system. Everything in /media is being stored on your main boot and OS partition, same as everything else in / (except /home/, which is on sda7). You should mount this external drive you want to be using for media, and move everything in /media onto it.

As for your above output of df, the discrepancy between total, used, and available space is probably due to root's reserved sectors, which by default is 5% of the drive (9.4GB in your case). The "available" space will always give you the result of total minus used minus reserved. Total is 188, used is 180, and reserved is 9.4, so there is zero space "available" for general use. You can reduce the amount of reserved space with tune2fs, but you really should be moving that media directory off of the main OS partition.

Resolved. It turns out that one of the user stored huge amounts of data in / and it has nothing to do with the external drive in /media. By removing this data everything works fine now

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Hi,

If you allow your users 'uncontrolled' use of your system you can always encounter problems like this. Either tell them how to use the system and what not to do or enforce quota on the home partition for example to allow one (or more) users to block everything by uploading large data. If you consider your problem solved then please mark the thread as such.

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Eric