On 10-01-20 01:49:37, William John Murray wrote: > > Hello all, > Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk > partition of 65GB in LVM; df says: > > /dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% / > > However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in > it add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are > various others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted > under liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used, but 98% full. > So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it > is out of space. > Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean. If the filesystem seems clean you need to use the -f option to force the check to actually happen. If that doesn't help, you could copy everything to someplace else, make a new filesystem, and copy back again, assuming you have a "someplace else". cpio or tar would work, booted from liveUSB. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
