On Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:23, Francis wrote: > I installed Fedora Core 5 all worked well , got the latest version of > Eclipse downloaded and it seems I have run out of space to extract it
No.1 Fedora Core has nothing to do with this. No.2 You have given insufficient information. Where were you trying to extract eclipse? > . I have the 3 questions : > 1. how much space is alloted to each folder by default as the > folders seem to show a free space value . You mean the mount points right? Dont call them folders or directories. /home, /var, / are all mount points and not folders. They are allocated space while partitioning. If you selected manual partitioning then you should know it but it seems otherwise. So by default the most disk space is allocated to / and /home mount points. The swap is allocated space equal to your RAM. Other partitions, if any, are allocated space accordingly. > 2. how do I resize the space alloted to the folders by default. Why would you want to do that? Its messy. > 3. how do I check to see how much space each folder in / is using ?? > here is the output of : df -a -H du > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 8.8G 8.2G 95M 99% / You have used up 8.2G of space on the / partition. So ~0.6G of space remains. But Linux shows only 95M free. The anomaly that you see is because the ext2 FS allocates 5% of the disk space as a buffer to the root user so the system may seem to run out of space but the root user is still able to manage with the shortage of space. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
