Ok have you tried 

du -h --max-depth=2 /home

once you have done that you will find out who the culprit is.


> Hi All,
> I seem to be missing 6 gig of disk space.
> This could have been happening all along, but I hadn't noticed as its only 
> become an issue since the /home directory is getting full.
> 
> I have a 13 gig western digital as a secondary drive (Confirmed by hdparm 
> -i /dev/hdb), but when I do a df -h, it shows only two filesystems of 
> these sizes:
> 
> [root@Laziar2 /root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb6             2.9G  2.7G  100M  97% /home
> /dev/hdb5             3.9G  2.5G  1.3G  65% /usr
> 
> I thought I might have had some unallocated space on the disk, but I then 
> went into fdisk, printed out the partition info and it shows:
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1             1      1871  15028776    5  Extended
> /dev/hdb5             1       523   4200934+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb6           524      1871  10827778+  83  Linux
> 
> I thought it might be the bios, but I don't think so, without rebooting I 
> can't check, but its an ABIT BH6 motherboard, and should detect 13 gig 
> harddrives.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas as to where the 6 gig could have gone?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott
> 
> -- 
> Scott Ragen
> Support Manager/IT Administrator
> Roadtech Systems
> www.roadtechsystems.com.au
> PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294


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