Re: Help! screwed-up root partition

> 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
>