Re: gorged harddrive

charles f. zeitler wrote:
--- Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

charles f. zeitler wrote:
i've been pruning my "downloads" disk,
rather drastically, and not making a dent.

today some more, less drastic but still
hefty, same result.

revisited du- checked it twice - three
times- yup, it reports one directory at
800+ gb- on a 400gb disk!

fsck (forced) failed to report any problems,
there don't seem to be any symlinks,
and the sub-direcory sizes are sane...

any ideas welcome, and appreciated.
Instead of telling people what you are seeing it would be better to show the actual commands and output.

good point.


[fedora_8@Nyarlethotep ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 13250836 11459264 1107608 92% /
/dev/sda9 1898468 825572 974904 46% /tmp
/dev/sda11 270882768 259964688 5414052 98% /home
/dev/sda10 1898468 1156484 643992 65% /var
/dev/sdc1 480719056 370452080 105383136 78% /home/fedora_8/music_vids
/dev/sda2 101105 17986 77898 19% /boot
tmpfs 1037552 248 1037304 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 384578164 330445976 34596748 91% /home/fedora_8/torrents_isos

/dev/sdb1 is the drive under discussion.


[fedora_8@Nyarlethotep ~]$ du -sb t*s/*
34256010522 torrents_isos/backup
883393808812 torrents_isos/data
58352749159 torrents_isos/finished
75197043648 torrents_isos/finnished
18222558607 torrents_isos/isos
4781438 torrents_isos/logs
16384 torrents_isos/lost+found
4096 torrents_isos/lost_meta
193903286 torrents_isos/meta
1402434610 torrents_isos/new
75585799469 torrents_isos/porn
4096 torrents_isos/rar
1318803 torrents_isos/shas
4096 torrents_isos/tmp
97996487 torrents_isos/total_meta.tar.bz2
4096 torrents_isos/zip

somethings wrong with t*s/data ....


OK.... I believe I know what the problem is. The torrents_isos/porn directory makes things seem larger than what they really are....

No, just kidding.....

I believe you may have a bunch of non-completed torrent downloads. When you start a torrent download the client will reserve the space and it will be reflected in the output of "du" but *not* in the output of "df". Thus with "du" you can have a situation where it "thinks" more disk space is being used than it actually is. FWIW, this is normal.

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