Re: [SLE] Is the hard disk full? Long post.

On Saturday 25 February 2006 01:08, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello all:

I have the following problem with my suse 10.0 OSS with kde 3.
4.

I wanted to install my own freedb database. For this purpose I
created a separate partition with 10 GB size.
I exctracted the tar archive to this partition. The extraction took
a really long time, for hours so I left the machine alone. After
the extraction has finished tar gave some error messages that
could not extract everything since no space left on the drive.
However df -h showed this:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 9.2G 4.9G 3.9G 56% /home/user/sda4

After rebooting the computer I found that my lilo was corrupted
that I had to fix using the rescue boot disk. When I was able
login in again I wanted to create new directories on the
abovementioned drive but I got this error message:

mkdir sda4/temp
mkdir: cannot create directory `sda4/temp': No space left on
device

However df -h shows the same as above:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 9.2G 4.9G 3.9G 56% /home/user/sda4

When I run fsck.ext3 (with /dev/sda4 unmounted) it does not
report any error:
fsck.ext3 /dev/sda4
e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
/dev/sda4: clean, 1221600/1221600 files, 1301070/2441880
blocks

Now I don't know what the problem is and how I could fix it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
IG

Hello IG,
I just had the same problem a few days ago. I have a separate partition for
home and backup. For some reason they didn't mount automatically on reboot.
So when I ran rsync to update my system everything was backed up to my root
partition. It is small and filled up completely. I couldn't login
graphically. I managed to login on the command line. I used this command:
du -hsx /* to find out where on my root partition the unwanted data was and I
removed it. Them I mounted the home and backup partitions and everything is
fine.
I hope this helps,
Jerome

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