Re: Help! screwed-up root partition

Doug wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps you have mounted / on top of (and there by hidden) a
mounted partition?

I would suggest booting with a rescue disk or One disk and with
all partitions unmounted check each partition.

Cheers!

jim b.

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