Re: /root is full

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:

> What troubles me is that my root partition is nearly 500 Gb. df says:

>    rootfs                       474440   474440          0 100% /
>    /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UID of \> 474440   474440          0 100% /

Where do you see 500GiB? It says 474440 blocks of 1KB size or 463MiB.

> But # du / -hx --max-depth=1 says "242M /" I picked up the opinion that
> this discrepancy suggests filesystem corruption. 

Nah. du and df count some files in a different way.

What is the full output of 

   du / -hx --max-depth=2 | sort -h

?

My guess is that /lib/modules occupies a large portion of your /-fs.

Grüße,
Sven.

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