On 8/8/07, Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > If you had an 18GByte partition full to overflowing and removed > > 10GByte then you'd still have 8 remaining in there. the output from > > the df command shows this. > > > > Yes but where are they? according to Konquerer the /home is totally > empty now and so is the trash bin. > >> If this is the problem how to I go about fixing it ?? > >> > > Remove more files. > > > I cant remove any more as there are none showing up to remove. There are two possiblilities: 1) All the files are either hidden 'dot' files or in dot directories. what happens if you use the command:- find . -print0 | du --si --files - | less ( use a 'q' to get back to the command line )
Which I mentioned previously. Did you try it? 2) You have a corrupted file system. The CLUG meeting next Tuesday ( 14 Aug ) is a fixups evening. You might like to bring your machine in and I'm sure somebody Will be there to help. Thats > the crux of my whole problem. > > If /home is meant to be empty should I try deleting the the dev/hda7 > partition?/?? Don't do that! You will lose all your personal configuration data. Or is that too drastic? Yes!!! > I actually went to do that, but Yast said I cant do it because it is > mounted. If thats the solution how would I manually unmount it? Thank you yast! You saved his bacon! -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
