Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

["S. Bulterman" <s_bulterman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Friday 12 November 2004 20:00, Colin Murphy wrote:
>
> > This is with Suse 9.1 on a Reiser filesystem.
> >
> > Unfortunately I allowed my /tmp directory to fill up and even though I am
> > deleting files I don't seem to be getting any space back.
>
>
> Thanks to all who have posted so far on this subject. I am still scratching my 
> head though.
>
> I have been able to delete files from the /tmp directory and get SOME free 
> space back but I still don't think the figures add up. I can't be exactly 
> sure with /tmp because I've lost count and it is on the same filesystem as my 
> root directories, so I went to something more basic.
>
> I said that some of the other filesystems were showing the same problem, one 
> of them being my /data1 directory where I keep Stuff(tm). This is on its own 
> 10GB Reiser partition and also got filled to capacity, according to Konqueror 
> at least, where  the Properties tab currently shows "Free disk space: 2.8 GB 
> out of 10.0GB (72% used)" even though there are no files there according to 
> Konqueror and confirmed with 
>
> 	colin@linux:/data1> du /data1
> 	0       /data1

If this is said before then sorry. Just jumped in.
You may wane try this on the command line: du -h --max-depth=1
This will give de disk usage in MB and GB. and only for the directories 
from where you started it.

> When I started posting on this subject /data1 did have files in it and was 
> reported, by Konqueror, as being "100% full with 65MB free" (sic). I copied 
> all of the files from /data1 to elsewhere and found there were only 2.1GB of 
> files anyway.
>
> Anyone any clues as to what is causing this?
>
> How do I find out about free space on a partition from the command line? I 
> fear that relying on Konqueror may be adding an extra level of complication. 
> I just want to look at /data1 so I thought
>
> 	colin@linux:/data1> df /data1

This works only for mounted filesystems.
So was data1 mounted??

> would do the trick but it still gives me details of the root partition:-
>
> 	Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> 	/dev/hda2             10490104   7526516   2963588  72% /
>
> Thanks again for your time.

Hope this Helps,

Stefan.