Re: Strange filesystem problem

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On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:23, bdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Yesterday, I ran into an unusual problem with my ext3 filesystem.  Well,
> one that I consider strange at any rate.
> 
> The root partition became 100% full, and after backing up user data and
> removing packages that weren't being used, I still have the file system at
> 100% full.  I must have cleared about 2 gigs worth of data but I still
> have a full file system.
> 
> I deleted old log files, ran the "synch" command serveral times, and did
> an file system check, but the file system is still being shown as full,
> even after clearning 2 gigs of data.
> 
> Are there other utitlies that I could use to update the file system so the
> actual disk useage will be corrected?
> 

how is the disk partitioned?  Chances are that the packages you removed
were on a different partition than /

can you give us the complete output from df -h
Bret


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