Greetings,

I have installed mandrake 9.2 and it's running fine however on my 40GB drive I can only access 2GB of ./home which is actually 35GB.

In all utilities the directory size views as 2 GB.

However in DiskDrake, the partition /home is 35GB.

Anybody know of any diagnostic commands or Directory Size Limit settings?

This little problem has haulted my entire setup! Yikes!

Thanks!,
Garrett Min*~

"In all utilities the directory size views as 2 GB.

However in DiskDrake, the partition /home is 35GB."

The partition size is 35G. The file system size is 2G. (Why? I don't know.) You will have to format the /home partition with mkfs. Formating the partition will wipe out all of the data so you will have to back up /home before you format the partition and restore /home after you format. So the way to do this is to login as root. Copy /home to a safe place, being sure to save your permissions and ownership. umount /home. Format the partition with mkfs. mount the partition on /home again. Restore the backup to /home making sure that you preserve permissions and ownership.

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Perhaps it's a quota?

If it does turn out that the file system size of /home is smaller than your partition size then depending on the type of file system you have it might not be necessary to reformat it. Could you post the output of "df" and "fdisk -l" so others could examine it?

I have uses resize2fs myself to increase the size of a file system to the size of the underlying partition after expanding that. There are also equivalent programs for other file systems as well.

if you have 3gb's of data stored in /home and you right click on it then it will obviously show you 3gb's... if you do df -h then you will see the percentage being used on all partitions as well as there size.

Hey thanks for the response everyone.

I will run the df and fdisk commands on the partition and see what I come up with. If nothing substantial then I will try reformating partition too.

I thought it may be something universal to all Linux Distro's, like some sort of a Config File for Directory size limits. Gotta strip the Govenor off this Motor!

Cheers and thanks for the input...
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Cheers,
Garrett Min

I think that the easiest possibility to handle is the user's quota being active... but haven't said anything about it. Have u checked it?

Logged in as Root. I wasn't aware of a Users Quota? Is there a command for the User Quota?

Thanks,
Garrett*~

Hey thanks eveyrone for all the great advice. I learned some new useful commands like df-h and fdisk -l.

Also I got my problem solved!

Turns out doing a reformat of the drive wiped out whatever partition/user/quota that was happening on the disk. Looks like I got all my Gigabites Back!

Cheers and Thanks for the help...

Garrett Min