On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 07:49 +0100, 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. > Thanks, > Bill > Thanks for all the suggestions. The dead links (lsof | grep deleted) is very interesting - I have 49 of them, which seems bad, mostly /tmp files from a "gnome-terminal -ssh XXX.YYY" which are all 3Mb. However, this is only 150MB, I am hunting for 30GB. Rebooting should remove all such, and makes no difference. Chris Smart asked what 'du' I had tried. 'It was 'du -sh'. Note that it agreed well with baobob so I thought that made it trustworthy. Any more ideas? I guess I could copy the filesystem contents to another disk and back, I have the space for that, but it seems a little over-the-top. And it may well come back... Bill -- Bill Murray ---- ATLAS STFC RAL at: Bat 161 1-14, CERN, 1211 Meyrin, Geneve 23, Switzerland Tel:- CERN +41 22 7673028 or RAL +44 (0)1235 446256 -- Scanned by iCritical. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines