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Re: Full Hard Disk ?



stephen@cormac.office.netpresto.co.uk writes:

This is more suited for debian-user while it has nothing to do with
developing debian.

> This caused corruption of the file system. Also, now when I delete
> files, the free disk space goes up but df reports 0 space available.

Are you sure the files you're deleting isn't in use by any process?
Try "fuser <file>" before deleting files.

> For example, I now have 704M reported for size, with 659M reported 
> as used but 0 available.

Do you use df as ordinary user or as root. About 5% of the space is
reserved for root.

Do you use "apt-get clean" regulary? I wasted a lot of space on apt's
cache.

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