Disk Almost Filled Continued

From: cc (geezer1016_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:23:59 GMT

        
        I posted earlier and got some responses. The problem is that my SUSE 9.0
drive appears to be almost full. I can not account for why. All I have done
is added a driver and did a backup. I even deleted the backup.
        I have tried everything that was suggested earlier which was to run du and
df which I did. I do not see any one file that is big, nor can I account
for the disk being filled.
        Also suggested was kdirstat which opened but gave me no information, I
probably am doing it wrong.
        I have noticed that when I run df -h I get the following:
cc@linux:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb6 32G 32G 14M 100% /
/dev/hda1 39G 9.0G 30G 24% /windows/C
/dev/hdb1 5.9G 41M 5.9G 1% /windows/d
tmpfs 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
cc@linux:~>

        Notice hdb6 is almost full I look in partitioner
 and there is an hdb2 that is not listed here and it
gives the disk size to be almost the same. Here there is
no hdb2. Partitioner notes that hdb2
is an extended partition and that hdb6 is a linux
 native partition. The drive itself is 40 gig.
        One possibility is that I messed up the backup
proceedure and created another virtual drive or something
 wierd.
        In any case what do I do now?
        If I do a repair, will I loose all the stuff
I have been working on like may wifi connection and
my printer connection?
        If I do another backup (and it is successful)
and then do a repair will that put save my stuff and fix
the system.
        By the way I have been having boot problems to, I
constantly have to boot from the install disk and fix the boot
my doing merge boot records, maybe this wierd drive is the
reason.
        I hope this is clear, I am obviously a newbie so I
apologize
in advance if I am not giving the right information.

Charlie

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