On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:00:42AM -0800, R Parker wrote: > Hi, > > My hda1 partition is becoming %100 used and I don't > know why. This began happening after a system lockup > where I had to power cycle. I made about 9.7Gig of > space available on the drive but after another lockup > and power cycle the drive is %100 used again. > > [studio@stepdaddy studio]$ df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted > on > /dev/hda2 38GB 36GB 118MB 100% / > /dev/hda1 104MB 21MB 79MB 21% /boot Maybe not related, but I suspect you have the default "reserved blocks percentage" (5%). That would account for the discrepancy between size / used / avail. 5% is 1.9 GB and that's a LOT of space to reserve for root. You can set it with tune2fs, see the man page. > Could it be that ext3 is doing something to cause > this? Perhaps the filesystem needs to be checked. couldn't hurt to fsck... well, it shouldn't ;-) > At one point, I removed about two gigs of data and 'df > -H' reported available space at around 500MB. I'm not > sure what that might indicate. I've seen similar behavior with ext3 but I *think* in that case I had a process that wouldnt' let go of the file. THe space won't get actually freed while that's true. Kill should fix that but IIRC it didn't. Reboot showed the free space I expected. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
