Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Jan 11, 2008 6:26 AM, Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk> wrote:

> 'elo.
>
> I'm wondering if the list-mind has any collective wisdom to a problem
> that's just started:
>
> I've ran out of disk-space on what mounts as / (and has pretty much
> everything, apart from /var/run and /var/lock) : df(1) reports that 29G
> of a 28G disk is used, 100%.


Depending on what you have running and what's happening to/near your
machine, /var/log can get insane pretty fast.


>
> Despite having moved at least 4gigs off, fsck(8)'ing, and checking
> ownership, I'm out of ideas... there ought to be *some* space...


when you say "moved ... off" I'm wondering how you did this (if you used the
filemanager for example).  I had symptoms similar to yours at one point,
only to find out that since I used the filenamager to delete files, they
were simply copied to ~.Trash and no space was freed.

Issuing
#sudo apt-get autoclean
or
#sudo apti-get clean

will clean up your package cache and free some space.


>
>
> It's being mounted rw, as expected.
>
> The machine, in itself is fine: apart from X (well, KDE) not wanting to
> login, but TTY login's fine. Nothing untoward in the start-up sequence.
>
> Any thoughts on *why*, despite having moved stuff off, the machine still
> doesn't think it's got any space?


depending on how you have your destination media mounted, you may in fact be
copying instead of moving, unless you are explicitly issuing mv commands.

as an outside bet, if you are issuing mv commands and no media is being
freed, then my question is: are you sure your destination media is mounted
exactly where you are 'mv'ing the files to?  Mount point confusion could be
causing these problems even though it seems rather unlikely
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