--- Paul Winkler <pw_lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;-) I'm backing up now and expecting the worse case. > > 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. I was hoping for something like that but booting hasn't helped. I'll try again after the backups are complete. ron > -- > > Paul Winkler > http://www.slinkp.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
