Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
On Tuesday 20 September 2011 16:01:09 Lisi wrote:
> ...
>
> Thanks, all of you. :-)
>
> Unfortunately my original email, now I reread it, was less that totally
> informative. :-(
>
> My / does not contain /home, which is on its own large drive.
>
> It contains everything else.
>
> hda1 is /, hda2 is swap.
>
> My / has been trundling along at around 30% full for years. Now it has
> suddenly filled up completely. The most likely explanation is that I
> accidentally copied a large directory, say, /home onto hda1. This has
I'd check /var/log first. This happened to me about a year ago. I don't
recall all the details, but an error condition generated a huge log file that
filled my / partition. Oddly enough, after deleting the offending file, the
partition still showed as full until I did an fsck on it. After that, I
rebooted and everything was fine.
-Chris
> happened before, but it has been easy to find and put right. This time I
> can't find it. I daren't just wholesale start deleting things on /, and
> even if I can salvage a few gig from swap, it won't be much because it is
> not a large disk. It doesn't need to be normally!
>
> Once I have solved the keyboard problem, I'll have a look both using
> GParted and using a general purpose live CD.
>
> I'll ask about the keyboard problem on a British list rather than an
> international one. I am more likely to get an answer that I understand,
> since it is a problem that we all face: how to get a pipe, working from a
> live CD, using a uk keyboard.
>
> Thanks again for all your help so far.
>
> Lisi
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