[SOLVED] /home partition 1% and is empty

Thrazos · 01-13-2023, 10:13 PM

Good night fellas i recently installed Slackware, i created 3 partitions sda1 /root, sda2 swap and sda3 /Home, the question is, why /Home says 1% used if is empty, i don't have any pic, video or file.

frankbell · 01-13-2023, 10:18 PM

While in your home directory, try running this command from a terminal:

Code:

ls -a

I suspect you will find a number of "hidden" dot-config files present that will account for that minimal amount of disk usage. Follow the link to learn more about hidden files on Linux.

And welcome to LQ.

syg00 · 01-13-2023, 10:33 PM

The fact that you have a home directory at all proves /home isn't empty. But most of that usage will be for the filesystem itself. Depending on filesystem choices metadata and maybe also a reserved percentage. Windows doesn't tell you of such things ...

Thrazos · 01-13-2023, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

While in your home directory, try running this command from a terminal:

Code:

ls -a

I suspect you will find a number of "hidden" dot-config files present that will account for that minimal amount of disk usage. Follow the link to learn more about hidden files on Linux.

And welcome to LQ.

Ok maybe checking hidden files inside /home can see what is. I hope that files don't belongs to the SO, and the complete installation had been inside the root dir

pan64 · 01-14-2023, 02:09 AM

users always have some files in their homes, usually hidden files, started with dot (like .bashrc). These files belong to the user and were created when the user itself was created. The installation contains the tools to generate these files and which are usually located on the root filesystem.

MadeInGermany · 01-14-2023, 03:40 AM

A directory uses one or more data blocks.
The following exercise will blow up the directory size by creating many files in it.

Code:

mkdir testdir
cd testdir
ls -ld
for f in file{1..20000}; do : > "$f"; done
ls -ld
find . -name "file?*" -delete
ls -ld

Most file systems won't shrink the directory when files are deleted.

syg00 · 01-14-2023, 03:52 AM

That is not relevant to what the OP is asking, and will only lead to more confusion.

MadeInGermany · 01-14-2023, 04:43 AM

Because the name /home differs from testdir?

Thrazos · 01-14-2023, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

users always have some files in their homes, usually hidden files, started with dot (like .bashrc). These files belong to the user and were created when the user itself was created. The installation contains the tools to generate these files and which are usually located on the root filesystem.

Thnx for ask, i made this question cause when installing Slackware and ask me to select another partition which was created for me like /dev/sda3 that i would use like /Home, setup told me if i wanted to use that partition to distribute SO files, so i thought the installation program would install part of the SO inside home directory, sorry if is a stupid question but i'm new on Linux, and there are no stupid questions, just stupid that don't ask.

syg00 · 01-14-2023, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadeInGermany

Because the name /home differs from testdir?

No, because the OP has just installed and is wondering why a newly formatted filesystem is 1% occupied.

Thrazos · 01-14-2023, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

No, because the OP has just installed and is wondering why a newly formatted filesystem is 1% occupied.

Exactly, i'm wondering that. When check the directory says for example 30 GB total used 1% and available 28 GB and why this happens?

hazel · 01-14-2023, 05:52 AM

Your home directory is for your personal files. This includes personal configuration files for various programs that you use, but they typically don't take up much room. What takes up room is photographs, videos, music and all that other stuff that people commonly download from the internet or upload from other devices. And you won't have those on a freshly installed system.

Check your home directory in six months time and you'll get a more typical picture.

Thrazos · 01-14-2023, 06:26 AM

[QUOTE=hazel;6404304]Your home directory is for your personal files. This includes personal configuration files for various programs that you use, but they typically don't take up much room. What takes up room is photographs, videos, music and all that other stuff that people commonly download from the internet or upload from other devices. And you won't have those on a freshly installed system.

Check your home directory in six months time and you'll get a more typical picture.[/QUOTE

guys, please watch the attached file...

as you can see 1.3 GB used??? this is insane!!!

computersavvy · 01-14-2023, 10:14 AM

Have you even tried what was suggested?

Code:

ls -la /home/*

will give you info about what is there.

Code:

du -hs .??* *

will tell you exactly what is being used in each file and directory located in the current location. Run that in your home directory to see what is actually there.

elgrandeperro · 01-14-2023, 10:36 AM

It probably isn't files, it is inodes. Inodes take up some space, and you need an initial tree that is created by mkfs. I am not sure if it is just one for lost+found or the fully allocated tree (you specify how many inodes/blocks and that is reserved). But df is probably rounding up, so it is %1.

I actually created a loopback filesystem, removed lost+found and it still have a few kbs used, perhaps for the directory tree. It still listed it as %1 used.