Re: Full Hard Disk ?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:05:14PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> 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.
>
The files definitely aren't in use. I deleted about 20M of archived
RFC's and other junk that I don't need on that system, but I don't
get any space back.
> > 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.
>
Yes. Because it's a laptop with only a 700M drive, I try to keep
the disk as clean as possible
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