I have posted this before but didn't understand the answers, but now I need to really do something about it. My / partition is filled, but the amount of data in it is minimal, to wit:
/dev/hda1 3.7G 3.6G 0 100% / /dev/hda3 1.4G 1.1G 216M 84% /mnt/hda3 /dev/hda4 22G 17G 4.0G 81% /mnt/hda4 /dev/hdb1 27G 18G 7.9G 69% /mnt/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 71G 46G 21G 68% /mnt/hdc1 [root@jhammer6 /]# du -sh auto bin boot dev etc initrd install lib lost+found root sbin shlib test tmp 2.0k auto 5.9M bin 3.3M boot 15k dev 3.6M etc 1.0k initrd 11k install 44M lib 12k lost+found 46M root 6.2M sbin 208k shlib 7.0k test 80M tmp So, du reports less than 200 M bytes but df reports 3.6 gigs in use. Obviously, I do not have gigs of data on the root partition. I have a LOT of stuff pointed to by symbolic links (about 18 gigs worth)in my root partition, to wit: rwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Dec 21 21:56 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Dec 21 21:56 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 429305 Jul 24 21:30 System.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 434859 Feb 17 2001 System.old drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jan 6 2001 auto drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 24 19:44 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jul 24 21:30 boot drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 11264 Dec 16 21:07 dev drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 4096 Dec 24 07:33 etc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 15 2000 home -> /mnt/hda4/home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 8 2000 initrd drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1024 Jul 8 2000 install -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4673 Nov 21 10:42 junkout drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 2048 Sep 26 21:37 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 8 2000 lost+found drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 1024 Nov 21 10:42 mnt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98304 Dec 21 22:10 new lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 5 20:39 opt -> /mnt/hda4/opt dr-xr-xr-x 121 root root 0 Dec 7 16:31 proc drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 3072 Dec 24 07:29 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 Nov 10 22:32 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 8 2000 shlib drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Nov 24 20:58 test lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 5 21:16 tftpboot -> /mnt/hda4/tftpboot drwxrwxrwt 54 root root 23552 Dec 24 12:13 tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 4 2001 usr -> /mnt/hda4/usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 5 21:13 var -> /mnt/hda4/var -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 897761 Feb 17 2001 vmlinux-2.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863602 Jul 24 21:30 vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636452 Sep 10 2000 vmlinuz-NoModules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863602 Jul 4 16:05 vmlinuz-win4lin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 897760 Feb 17 2001 vmlinuz.old Now, my dumb question is, do the symbolic links on my root partition gradually take up more space (or use up that thing they call "inodes") as I add things to the linked partitions? What is the best way to solve this problem? Thanks, Joel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
