Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[andy baxter]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Adam McGreggor wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:28 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote:
>>>       
>>>> No X
>>>>         
>>> Sorry, I've missed that
>>>       
>> Np.
>>
>>     
>>>> The issue is deleting stuff does *not* create disk-space. When it ought
>>>> to.
>>>>         
>>> I dunno. You don't have a runaway process filling the disk, do you. And
>>> I guess you have rebooted and maybe checked stuff in maintenance mode?
>>>       
>> If only... And yes, i've rebooted a couple of times, played around in
>> single-user mode... I'm stumped!
>>
>> Think I may make another back-up (one can never have too many), and then
>> do a clean install --- If I/the list can't think of anything else.
>>
>> It's been installed/upgraded since Warty...
>>
>>     
>
>
> Just curious....How do you know you have no space?
>   

what does the output of 'df -h' give? I'm just wondering along the same 
lines if you are using the right command to report disk space. Probably 
not but I thought it was worth asking.