re-reading your message, is it your /home partition, or your / (root)
partition?
if it is the root partition, and you don't have any separate partitions
for other parts of the file system, then an obvious candidate is your
logs (in /var/log) growing out of control. Thats why servers usually
have /var or /var/log omn a separate partiton.
Anyway the other command you should know about is df, often best run
with the -h parameter, ie df -h. It gives this kind of output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 27G 13G 13G 51% /
/dev/vg/lv_home 60G 52G 4.1G 93% /home
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
36M 36M 0 100% /mnt/loop
keep us posted.
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 19:50, Roger Searle wrote:
> (obviously) linux newbie and proud to be so... please don't suggest i get a
> bigger hard drive.
>
> Somehow my /home partition is now 100% full (mdk 9.2). I can easily sort this
> type of problem in windows, it's very frustrating that I can't figure this out
> in linux. So right now I can't send emails from linux ("error writing temporary
> file"). KDiskFree shows no space left.
>
> I'm not sure what's going on here, because the partition is 8GB, and I'm storing
> email and other files on a different partition (so I can dual boot) and am not
> aware of doing anything that would be using the space. I have upgraded mozilla
> and installed a seti app, which hardly accounts for much! Sure, I've used the
> gui urpmi tool to install all the updates. But filling an entire 8.3GB???
>
> So I tried removing a few packages, which was a fix (I could send email!) for a
> couple of days. But I'm back at 100% again. Can anyone suggest what I can do?
> Does this seem to be a "normal" situation? Or is something going wrong? I
> can't keep on removing packages for too long...
>
> I went looking for the command to list free partition space and only came up
> with this (it's hdb7 that's full).
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb -l
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 2932 23551258+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdb2 2933 4865 15526822+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 2933 3696 6136798+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb6 3697 3759 506016 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb7 3760 4865 8883913+ 83 Linux
>
>
