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Old 05-20-2006, 09:29 AM   #1
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Getting a message that my 60 gig hard drive is full. When I do a df it is saying I have used 99%. When I do a du it is saying I have used 16Gb. Any suggestions?
 
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It may depend on where you did the du command as well as the user you were it was done. Try it at / and as root and see what it says. You need to delete some files whether downloaded files, logs, or mail messages. If it gets to 100% or very close, X will not start becuase it would not have enough room for cache files and log space to start.

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Old 05-20-2006, 11:43 AM   #3
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Did du and df as a user and root. Done it at / and various places across the filesystem. All I can think of is that a log file or something is locked for editing possibly.
 
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Hard to say what the differnece in results. Never used them to compare like that. Just use df to check partition sizes and use du to see who is using a lot of drive space.

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Old 05-21-2006, 12:19 PM   #5
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So what could be the issue? I know for a fact that I had no more than 20 Gb on the hd used. I have checked lsof, and nothing is keeping open a file that is insanely large. I have also done multiple reboots, so I am guessing the log files are not using up all the space.
 
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Did you check the file sizes in /tmp ?
 
Old 05-22-2006, 01:13 PM   #7
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Yes, the files were less than 155mb.
 
Old 05-22-2006, 05:57 PM   #8
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Maybe an un-mounted partition ???
 
Old 05-22-2006, 06:07 PM   #9
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I had a similar problem on a small (5GB partition) with SuSE 10.0 and it turned out all my trashes were not being emptied. Check your trash files to see if there are any files in it. In your home folder then .local/share/Trash and see if there are files in there. I just deleted them all and gained almost 50% of my drive space.

In my particular problem I believe it was root's Trash folder that was filling up, which was suprising since I didn't run filemanager as root very often.
 
  


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