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Re: Help! screwed-up root partition

by Bugzilla from sander.lepik@gmail.com :: Rate this Message:

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Hey,

you should go recursive.. It seems you have access to that partition, so
do this:

# cd /_partition
# df -sh *
# cd biggest_result_from_above_command
# df -sh *
etc
etc

sorry for bad english, hope it helps

--
Sander



Doug kirjutas:

> I've screwed up in trying to install and use a 1.5TB external HD on my
> 2008.1 MDV.
>
> Thinking I was writing to the new HD, I wrote some stuff which
> evidently went into the / partition (only 3.5G) instead - how I was
> able to do this as user I don't know - and filled it up. I moved this
> out (again as user and not realising it was in /).
>
> Now 'df' shows the / partition as 100% full and I get warning messages
> on boot about inadequate space in the partition.
> However, the directories in the / partition (/bin, /dev, /etc,
> /initrd, /.kde, /lib, /media, /mnt, /opt, /proc, /root, /sbin, /sys -
> the rest have their own partitions) only account for about 10% of the
> partition space.
>
> How do I find out where the other 90%'s gone? How do I free it up again?
>
>
> Doug
>

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