Jim Beard wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks Jim, Thomas, Eugeni.
(1) unfortunately 'du' doesn't give any more useful information
(2) the mess is there after re-booting (although when the error first
appeared, MCC seemed to have lost the mount points for all the
partitions. At least that was corrected by re-booting)
(3) booting with a rescue disk looks the next option - I was afraid that
was coming. I can also have a look with 'qparted'.
If the worst comes to the worst and it's still not apparent where the
fault lies, would it be possible to copy the / directories elsewhere;
wipe /dev/hda5 and copy them back to /dev/hda5?
That is, with all partitions unmounted, using 'cp' I assume , rather
than 'dd', which I guess would simply perpetuate the error.
Or is that completely no go?
Doug
