Running out of disk space!

[pat decampos]

As requested:

Result of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4e74c1d1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000db7fd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        4499    36138186    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x771b17c9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1              17       23874   191639385    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2           23875       30401    52428127+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sde: 1015 MB, 1015808000 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1         984      991747+   6  FAT16

Result of df:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk
                       6782016   6440372         0 100% /
varrun                 1037300       304   1036996   1% /var/run
varlock                1037300         0   1037300   0% /var/lock
udev                   1037300        88   1037212   1% /dev
devshm                 1037300       596   1036704   1% /dev/shm
lrm                    1037300     39760    997540   4%
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1             36138184  10590044  25548140  30% /media/windows
/dev/sdc1            191639380  64226536 127412844  34% /media/storage 2
/dev/sda1            244196000 115569628 128626372  48% /media/storage 1
gvfs-fuse-daemon       6782016   6440372         0 100% /home/pat/.gvfs
/dev/sdf1            484535504  17079656 443036648   4% /media/disk
/dev/sde1               991488    985184      6304 100% /media/disk-1
/dev/sdd1            312568640    788312 311780328   1% /media/external_



On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Dan Farrell <dan at spore.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:10:07 -0400
> "pat decampos" <decampos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > It seems like I am running out of disk space on my home partition. I
> > instalhttp://
> img99.imageshack.us/img99/646/screenshotsystemmonitorxz0.pngled
> > through Wubi in Windows, and thought that 10GB would be enough. I've
> > attached a link to a screenshot hoping it would aid thesituation:
> > http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/646/screenshotsystemmonitorxz0.png
>
> good thinking, the command line program 'df' probably would have been
> a lot less hassle, but this works.
>
> > I tried expanding the /host/ubuntu/disks/boot device using gparted,
> > but that did nothing to improve /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk.
> > Where should I be doing that? Aren't they the same device?
>
> No, they aren't the same disk. If you were to send over the output of
> 'df' and of 'sudo fdisk -l'  it would be a little easier to see your
> partitioning scheme and advise, but from what you did provide, it looks
> as if you have quite a lot of extra space in /boot.  /boot generally
> holds files to be used at the very beginning of the computer's boot
> process; the grub menu, the linux kernels, possibly some graphics...
>
> If this is the common way of doing it, you'll find that the 'mount'
> command will show that boot and root are in fact entirely different
> partitions, and that you should probably shrink /boot down
> significantly and put that space in / (root).
>
> Exactly how you managed to fill almost 9G of data in /boot is actually
> beyond me, but I would have expected it to be much closer to a few
> tenths of a gigabyte .. but I'm not on ubuntu right now, so perhaps
> other list viewers can back me up on this.
>
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