Home dir FULL

[Ron Scott-Adams]

My apologies; I missed that you had posted fdisk -l. Can you post the results of:

sudo cat /etc/fstab

sudo blkid


Ron Scott-Adams
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On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Ron Scott-Adams <ron at tohuw.net> wrote:

> It looks like you attempted to use /media/ban1home_ for your home directory (/dev/sdb6). However, you have /dev/sda9 set as the root partition, and have not mapped home anywhere else, so it’s going where the rest of your files go.
> 
> There’s some pieces of the puzzle missing here. Can you post the output of the following:
> sudo fdisk -l
> 
> sudo cat /etc/fstab
> 
> Also, a quick tip for you: ls, du and df all have a “human sizes” parameter, -h. df -h renders much easier to read sizes, as they will round up to MB, GB, etc.
> 
> 
> Ron Scott-Adams
> ron at tohuw.net
> "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." (Mark Twain)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Herman Aalderink <n0jn at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 09:32 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 9 February 2014 03:46, Herman Aalderink <hermanaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am out of disk-space for my home-dir. 550MB space left.
>>>> 
>>>> I reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. System starts up OK.
>>> 
>>> Do you mean that you re-installed because home was full?  That should
>>> not have been necessary.
>>> 
>>>> I reduced evolution.
>>>> All is working except the Update Manager.
>>>> 
>>>> How do I solve the problem? I have plenty disk-space.
>>>> Can I just MOVE the .evolution dir to my data-partition and put a LINK
>>>> in home?
>>>> 
>>>> I prefer the 'automatic' way of installing Ubuntu (no manual
>>>> partitioning). It safes time. It allows me to get out of any problem by
>>>> re-installation.
>>>> I use a second drive for data. I thought that would prevent the problem
>>>> 'out of disk space' for my HOME partition. It did not.
>>> 
>>> What does
>>> df
>>> show?  Copy/paste the result here.
>>> 
>>> Colin
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> herman1 at Bel2013:~$ df
>> Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda9        9094356 8367624    264756  97% /
>> udev              983396       4    983392   1% /dev
>> tmpfs             396884     836    396048   1% /run
>> none                5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
>> none              992204     204    992000   1% /run/shm
>> /dev/sdc1        7541872 4004752   3537120  54% /media/FLASH DRIVE
>> /dev/sdb6       15765248 6267060   8697352  42% /media/ban1home_
>> herman1 at Bel2013:~$ 
>> 
>> sdc1 is used for external back-ups and any transfers.
>> The last one is my data HD. (while in file-manager. I click on the
>> /media/ban1home partition to mount it)
>> 
>> Colin, tks for helping.
>> 
>> Herman N0JN in Philippines.
>> 
>> 
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