On 01/19/2010 10:49 PM, William John Murray wrote: > > Hello all, > Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk > partition of 65GB in LVM; df says: > > /dev/dm-0 65570580 60494828 1744888 98% / > > However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in it > add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are various > others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted under > liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used, but 98% full. > So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it is > out of space. > Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean. As someone else said, have a look for ".*" files (files whose names start with a dot). Also keep in mind that du and df look at "sparse" files differently. df shows what's been allocated and du shows what's actually used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - All generalizations are false. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines