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Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?



On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:08:46PM -0600, jie gong wrote:
> Hi
> I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
> My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
> partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
> Where did the space go?
> 
> Here is some output which may be useful.
> command: du -hcs /*
> 
> 3.3M                              /bin
> 5.8M                              /boot
> 128K                             /dev
> 23M                               /etc
> 4.0K                              /fai
> 893M                             /home
> 4.0K                              /initrd
> 44M                               /lib
> 16K                               /lost+found
> 4.0K                              /media
> 4.0K                              /mnt
> 4.0K                               /opt
> 507M                             /proc
> 3.8G                              /root

right here. your /root directory is 3.8G. How did you end up with so
much crap in /root? /root is the home directory for the root user and
should generally not be that full. regardless though, /root is part of
/ which is /dev/hda6. You have not mounted /root from another
partition. So that 3.8G has taken over your / partition. 

> 
> Command: df
> 
> I run df, get the following
> Filesystem    1K-blocks    Used       Available     Use%     Mounted on
> /dev/hda6     4032092      4032092      0               100%      /

you have not put /root on another partition, so it is part of this
one, which is clearly full. 

A

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