On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:16, Mark Haney wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 15:06, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > Anyway, try running "du -ks *" in the root directory and you'll get back > > the usage (in kilobytes) of each of the top level files/directories. > > Choose the one that's the problem and do "du -ks" in that directory etc. > > until you find the problem. > > > > Paul. > > -- > > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > No, I'm an idiot. I didn't count on /home (being a separate partition, > but MOUNTED under /) counting against the file size of / (which is a > separate partition), So I figure I've got about 7GB of stuff in / and > about that much in /home (which is mounted under /) and there you have > my problem. Dumkopf. Ah well, being an imbecile is a tough job, but > someone has to do it. I apologize to the list for wasting bandwidth. I > should have looked a little closer at my problem. >From your description I wonder if /home is actually mounted. Maybe the contents of /home are in the /home directory of the / filesystem and thus a 12+gb partition is full. Try logging in as root and unmounting /home (if it is mounted) then do a "du -ks /home" to see if data is actually there and taking up space but hidden.
