Dave, You've forgotten to clean out the old /home directory before you mounted the new one over it. Even though your old /home directory, on your / drive, is no longer in use it still has all those files taking up space. umount new /home and remount it as /mnt mount old /home and copy your files to /mnt delete files in old /home mount new /home -gc --- Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OK OK OK I give up I can't read. > > But on another note... > > I recently installed a new 60 gig hard drive. I did > this to overcome a > situation where I was rapidly running out of space > through loading up /home. > The new drive is ext3 like the old one. The / drive > is 38 gigs, there are > three partitions, boot, swap and root. I installed > hdc and formatted it as > ext3 all one partition, so /dev/hdc1 > > I copied all of /home to the new drive, then mounted > it as /home. This works > ok and gives me 30 gigs of new space. I want to > release the space taken up by > the old /home directory, so I commented out the > mount line in fstab and > rebooted, regaining access to the old /home. I used > nautilus as root and > navigated to the /home directory and deleted all the > contents. The directory > now shows up as empty, but df shows the space still > in use. I'd like to get > that cleared up, the space would be worthwhile and > the system runs like a dog > with 87% of the filesystem full. > > I tried to set the reboot count to 400 so as to > trigger a fsck on the next > reboot, but that hasn't changed anything. > > Ideas? > > Dave > -- > Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel > clings > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
