On 01/20/2010 07:49 AM, 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 > Hi Bill, could it be that the "reserved Blocks percent" Option of an ext2/3/4 FS is the matter for that behaviour? Find out how it is set by using dumpe2fs /dev/ice You can set it to zero by using tune2fs -m 0 /dev/ice. Regards, Florian -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines