[SOLVED] /home partition 1% and is empty

jailbait · 01-14-2023, 01:03 PM

Does your problem have anything to do with /Home being a different directory than /home?

rknichols · 01-14-2023, 01:56 PM

Even if it contains no ordinary files, your /Home filesystem still contains

The "." directory,
The "lost+found" directory,
Your home directory.

The minimum size for a directory file is 1 block (typically 4 KB), and the "lost+found" directory is usually pre-allocated with more space (16 KB) so that fsck can link lost inodes there without having to allocate more space from a possibly corrupt free block list. Even a newly created filesystem is never completely empty.

michaelk · 01-14-2023, 02:19 PM

The screenshot in post 13 is the information display from gparted which shows the partition mounted as /home.

It depends on how the filesystem was created and how much reserved space was allocated when it was created.
If I remember older versions of gparted showed used space that included metadata but newer does not. I'm not sure what version slackware installs.

Here is a screenshot from an Ubuntu VM with a 1GB disk with the standard 5% reserved space and is empty except for lost+found directory.

Thrazos · 01-15-2023, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by computersavvy

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.

Ok thnx i'll do it.