Re: Disk Almost Filled Continued

From: David LOney (d.loney_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/01/04


Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 01:09:27 GMT

cc wrote:

>
> 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

 Is it possible you set your firewall to log everything?

 -David



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