On 05/05/11 17:35, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 05/05/11 16:14, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> That's what I was afraid of. /dev/sb1 is already in use. Fdisk doesn't
>>> really know anything about LVM (other than the partition label). You
>>> need to inspect the output of vgdisplay and lvdisplay to see what's
>>> going on. You may not actually have an unused drive available to
>>> expand /home.
>>>
>> Yes, I've been looking there and lvm> pvdisplay shows all three
>> drive full. But full with what? This is a terrible system,
>> there's no way to know what's "filling" those drives! I don't
>> believe they are full of my data. I was considering unplugging
>> two of them to see how the system acts? But that's a hell of a
>> way to troubleshoot a software problem it seems to me.
>>
>> I will probably have to move files on to my NFS server until I
>> can rework the whole mess when I'm ready to install F-15.
> Well {pv,vg,lv}display will give you an idea to the structure of your
> storage environment (drives, partitions, volumes, etc), not if the
> file system is full.
>
This is what I see and it seems to be saying these two drives are full?
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc3
VG Name vg_box9
PV Size 19.05 GiB / not usable 15.00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 609
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 609
PV UUID lZVB91-QMK0-mER5-m3Yy-2D2X-8XWy-yS6AQn
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name vg_box9
PV Size 74.50 GiB / not usable 4.00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 2384
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 2384
PV UUID SC73uG-gs6q-axub-eX0L-j4Sj-fH9o-7H4h1C
> One command I use frequently is "du" or disk usage. The most useful
> way I've found to use it is like this:
>
> du -h --max-depth=1
>
Yes I use du -h often.
I've got a lot of large files in a Downloads directory. I'm copying
them to another drive and I hope that will free up enough space to
carry me through for a couple of months or whenever I am ready to
re-install the system.
Thanks, you have been very helpful, got me pointed in the right
direction I believe.
Bob
> This is nice because one you know who the biggest culprits of disk
> usage you can cd into the directory and then run the exact same
> command again (use the up arrow to browse your history) and follow the
> trail.
>
> There's a graphical version that's more interactive as well.
>
> You may have some weird log file or something else that was growing
> out of control for some reason. Either of those methods should help
> you find it.
>
> Good luck,
> Richard
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