Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Keith Clark wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 16:26 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>> On Fri, March 5, 2010 14:35, Keith Clark wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:01 -0800, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>>> Have you attempted to see if your home partition is mounted correctly?
>>>>
>>> Yes, mounted and accessable.  The only way I could solve this was to log
>>> in in recovery mode and just start deleting away large multimedia files.
>>> I must have deleted about 100 GB before the drive suddenly recognized
>>> free space.
>>>
>>> I have no idea why this is the case, but I have my machine back to being
>>> usable.
>> Now that you have some space you should install ncdu - ncurses disk usage
>> viewer. It shows you where all the space has gone and enables you to
>> navigate trough the directories. You can even delete files/dirs with it.
>>
>> Install it NOW so that it is accessible the next time you run out of space.
>>
>>
> I don't believe this.  I cleared up so much space.  It read over 70GB
> free.  Now zero again.
> 
> I'm using the GUI Disk Usage Analyzer and it is showing my / full with
> only 285GB!  It is a 500 GB Drive.
> 
> I don't know what else to do here.  I cleaned probably 100-200 GB of
> space, but my drive only said around 60-70 GB free.  I started it this
> morning and just let it sit there while I was at work.  I come home and
> zero bytes free.
> 
> Keith

	Is your /home on a separate partition from / ? Where did you clear the 
100GB + from?
	IOW, if your /home directory is a separate partition from /, it doesn't 
matter how much you clear from under /home, the / will still be full.
	When you run the df -h command, does it list / and /home (or whatever 
directory you cleared files from) temperately/different mount points?

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