Out of space error.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Ian wrote:

>> It's not how big the hard drive is.  It's how big the relevant partition
>> is.  Please run:
>>
>> df -Th
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
>>   
> Sorry for the hand holding.  I am totally in the dark here.
> Here is the output of df -Th
> 
> 
> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb2     ext3     56G   53G   85M 100% /
> varrun       tmpfs    1.2G  256K  1.2G   1% /var/run
> varlock      tmpfs    1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /var/lock
> udev         tmpfs    1.2G   56K  1.2G   1% /dev
> devshm       tmpfs    1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /dev/shm
> lrm          tmpfs    1.2G   39M  1.1G   4%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile
> /dev/sda1  fuseblk     38G  6.7G   31G  18% /media/PRAXIS
> 
> 
> I know that /dev/sda1 is my Windows XP hard drive.  I am not familiar
> with the others.

/dev/sdb is apparently your main hard drive, and sdb2 is your main
partition.  I am not clear where your "huge" hard drive is but sdb2 is
full.  It is possible you have partitioned badly and that is where the
space has disappeared to.  Try:

sudo parted /dev/sdb print
sudo parted /dev/sda print

Post the output.  Otherwise, you just need to clean out /.  There are
many tools for displaying how your space is taken up.  It's almost
certainly some part of your home directory, though.

Matt Flaschen