Help! Disk space error

Kareem Shehata kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 27 16:12:27 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:31, Sidney Shapiro wrote:
> Youre right, I cant see how the numbers add up. All I deleted was two
> unneeded files in / and a bunch of old log files...
> 
> This is what I get now:
> 
> [root at root]# du -sh *
> 1.1M    Desktop
> 31k     Mail
> 27k     PLSK.00015231.0000.sh
> 4.0k    anaconda-ks.cfg
> 727k    easypsa
> 5.3M    image
> 2.0k    index.html
> 22k     install.log
> 0       install.log.syslog
> 3.0k    mail
> 1.0k    nsmail
> 
> 
> [root at root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6             372M   95M  258M  27% /
> /dev/hda1              45M  8.7M   34M  21% /boot
> /dev/md0              147G  9.3G  130G   7% /home
> none                  283M     0  282M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda3             8.6G  1.7G  6.5G  21% /usr
> /dev/hda7              26G  1.7G   23G   7% /var

Well, it looks like one of those "unneeded files" may have been the
culprit.  When you get a chance, run e2fsck... something tells me not
all is right with your FS, and it doesn't hurt to check.

Kareem

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