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Old 10-15-2005, 05:14 AM   #1
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df says my hard drive is full but its not


Running slack 10.2 on hda and slack 10.2 on hdb (using hdb as storage space) hdb holds up to 90 GB. I was transfering files earlier and i ran out of space so I deleted about 4 or 5 gigs worth and df still says its 100% full but theres still 5 gigs free on the drive. It looks like this
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
/dev/hdb2 90G 85G 0 100%

Anyone know how to adjust this? just seems a bit weird to me never noticed this in all my time using linux. I can still use the space so its not a major problem but its kind of annoying. Even my gkrellm monitor says i have 0.00M free on it when theres 5 gigs free. Also something else I just noticed Gkrellm says that the HD is 96 gigs big and df says its only 90. When partitioning I did use up all the space so I am kinda confused.

Edit: cfdisk says that the drive is 96GB. So does gkrellm but DF says its only 90.

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Old 10-15-2005, 05:46 AM   #2
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a guess

not know but

have u moved ur files to trash, a wild guess

try empty trash fully :0),

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Old 10-15-2005, 05:56 AM   #3
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Dont think it would be that. I was logged into system A (on hda2) and deleted the files (which are on hdb2) through terminal with rm command. And I dont think that would account for why gkrellm says my hdd is one size and df says its another. However I am currently checking all directorys just incase i screwed the pooch somewhere but no luck so far. Maybe I set the blocks up wrong when I installed this system? its a fresh install I proboly should of mentioned that earlier. I could of swore I used 4096 maybe i made a typo?

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Old 10-15-2005, 07:27 AM   #4
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Re: df says my hard drive is full but its not

Quote:
Originally posted by Trijicon
Running slack 10.2 on hda and slack 10.2 on hdb (using hdb as storage space) hdb holds up to 90 GB. I was transfering files earlier and i ran out of space so I deleted about 4 or 5 gigs worth and df still says its 100% full but theres still 5 gigs free on the drive. It looks like this
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
/dev/hdb2 90G 85G 0 100%

Anyone know how to adjust this? just seems a bit weird to me never noticed this in all my time using linux. I can still use the space so its not a major problem but its kind of annoying. Even my gkrellm monitor says i have 0.00M free on it when theres 5 gigs free. Also something else I just noticed Gkrellm says that the HD is 96 gigs big and df says its only 90. When partitioning I did use up all the space so I am kinda confused.

Edit: cfdisk says that the drive is 96GB. So does gkrellm but DF says its only 90.
Unless you tell it not to, when you make a new filesystem 5% of space gets reserved. This is done so that even if the space
is filled processes that log data (apache,ftp,etc) can function properly. 5% of 90GB is 4.5GB so this could be the case.
That is why df reports 100% filled.

If you can write as root but not as user, then this is it.
It is a normal thing. Don't mind the 100% indication you still have 5GB free.
You can run tune2fs to change it if you want but generally it is a good thing to have (e.g on / , /usr, etc)
 
Old 10-15-2005, 08:06 AM   #5
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That does make sense and I've never heard about it before today. Wonder why I didnt see it but even so theres unaccounted space. The drive is 96GB big and it stops at 90GB period so theres 6 gb of unaccounted space. After about 85GB i cant write to it as user but i can write to it as root like you said but im still missing a lot of space any ideas?
 
Old 10-15-2005, 07:10 PM   #6
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Quote:
Originally posted by Trijicon
That does make sense and I've never heard about it before today. Wonder why I didnt see it but even so theres unaccounted space. The drive is 96GB big and it stops at 90GB period so theres 6 gb of unaccounted space. After about 85GB i cant write to it as user but i can write to it as root like you said but im still missing a lot of space any ideas?
96GB ? you mean the whole drive ?

The partition is 90GB from what df says.
Code:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
/dev/hdb2 90G 85G 0 100%
The other 6GB must be occupied by other partitions (hdb1 maybe ?)
The 5% reserved space i mentioned is per filesystem, so it is measured using the 90GB that the partition occupies.
 
Old 10-15-2005, 11:40 PM   #7
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sounds like conversion loss...

96 GB(10^3) == 89.4 GB(2^10)
 
Old 10-30-2005, 05:10 AM   #8
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check out http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/proj.../ext3-faq.html

sounds like you may have an "open" deleted file. I ran into this with a log file that consumed /var - df -h showed the partition at 100%, df -i showed /var at 1%. lsof showed the file causing the problem
 
  


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