Hi. I'm receiving this message on my 10.1: You are running low on disk space on your home partition (currently -26% free), would you like to run Konqueror to free some disk space and fix the problem? How can I increase the diskspace?. I know I can delete files/directories, but this is not what I want to do. I want to keep the content, and make the space greater. Erik
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi. I'm receiving this message on my 10.1:
You are running low on disk space on your home partition (currently -26% free), would you like to run Konqueror to free some disk space and fix the problem?
How can I increase the diskspace?. I know I can delete files/directories, but this is not what I want to do. I want to keep the content, and make the space greater.
If you're using Logical Volume Management, you can increase the size of the partition, assuming there's some free space available. Failing that, you can move /home to a larger partition, perhaps on another drive.
James Knott wrote:
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi. I'm receiving this message on my 10.1:
You are running low on disk space on your home partition (currently -26% free), would you like to run Konqueror to free some disk space and fix the problem?
How can I increase the diskspace?. I know I can delete files/directories, but this is not what I want to do. I want to keep the content, and make the space greater.
If you're using Logical Volume Management, you can increase the size of the partition, assuming there's some free space available. Failing that, you can move /home to a larger partition, perhaps on another drive.
Ok James. here's the partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2874 19929 137002320 83 Linux Home is at /dev/hda3, and I'm sure I don't have so much nearly occupied. How is it, that I can see how much the files/directories consumes ?
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi. I'm receiving this message on my 10.1:
You are running low on disk space on your home partition (currently -26% free), would you like to run Konqueror to free some disk space and fix the problem?
How can I increase the diskspace?. I know I can delete files/directories, but this is not what I want to do. I want to keep the content, and make the space greater.
If you're using Logical Volume Management, you can increase the size of the partition, assuming there's some free space available. Failing that, you can move /home to a larger partition, perhaps on another drive.
Ok James. here's the partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2874 19929 137002320 83 Linux
Home is at /dev/hda3, and I'm sure I don't have so much nearly occupied.
How is it, that I can see how much the files/directories consumes ?
I found it: df -k home/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 136998116 1465164 135532952 2% /home Why am I then receiving the message, as there seems to be lot of space ?
On Friday 15 September 2006 00:20, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
df -k home/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 136998116 1465164 135532952 2% /home
Why am I then receiving the message, as there seems to be lot of space ? Do you have accounting turned on... in other words, is your system restricting the amount of space that your "userid" can have in /home ?
-- Kind regards, M Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net
M Harris wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 00:20, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
df -k home/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 136998116 1465164 135532952 2% /home
Why am I then receiving the message, as there seems to be lot of space ?
Do you have accounting turned on... in other words, is your system restricting the amount of space that your "userid" can have in /home ?
How can I determine that ?
On Friday 15 September 2006 01:04, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Do you have accounting turned on... in other words, is your system restricting the amount of space that your "userid" can have in /home ?
How can I determine that ? Its called disk quotas.
You would have to have quota tools installed, and (because quotas only work with whole partitions) you will have an fstab entry for /home that includes usrquota and/or grpquota. The fstab entry allows for disk quotas and the tool quotacheck actually activates the quotas. There are hard, soft, and grace quotas.... quotas prevent one user from eating up all of the system's /home space... they only get their share... encourages users to keep their stuff cleaned up. The thing is, as the administrator of your system, you would have to choose to set this up... you should know whether you did that... and if you don't know, then you probably didn't. :-)) :-| -- Kind regards, M Harris <><
M Harris wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 01:04, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Do you have accounting turned on... in other words, is your system restricting the amount of space that your "userid" can have in /home ?
How can I determine that ?
Its called disk quotas.
Ok.
You would have to have quota tools installed, and (because quotas only work with whole partitions) you will have an fstab entry for /home that includes usrquota and/or grpquota.
This is not the fact, and as such quota is not installed: /dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
The fstab entry allows for disk quotas and the tool quotacheck actually activates the quotas. There are hard, soft, and grace quotas.... quotas prevent one user from eating up all of the system's /home space... they only get their share... encourages users to keep their stuff cleaned up. The thing is, as the administrator of your system, you would have to choose to set this up... you should know whether you did that... and if you don't know, then you probably didn't. :-)) :-|
You are quite right, I have not heard anything about quota before, and as such it's not installed. At least not by me :-) Then, How the heck am I then able to get rid of the problem ?.
On Friday 15 September 2006 02:06, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Then, How the heck am I then able to get rid of the problem ?. Well, hmmm, doesn't make sense to me... but seems like something is wrong... maybe with reiserfs?
Have you checked the reiser filesystem on /home? log on to the system from a black console as root unmount /home: umount /home Then, run reiserfsck against /dev/hda3: reiserfsck /dev/hda3 See what it says... sometimes the tree gets fouled up and things don't look right. In that case you may get a message that says you need to rebuild the tree.... like this....: reiserfsck /dev/hda3 --rebuild-tree This is sometimes an extreme step... and it can take a while (on large partitions like yours) There may be something I am not aware of here like max partition sizes 'n such... I have never made a partition for /home that large on any of my systems.... so, I don't know. Somebody else on this list will know though. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><
M Harris wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 02:06, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Then, How the heck am I then able to get rid of the problem ?.
Well, hmmm, doesn't make sense to me... but seems like something is wrong... maybe with reiserfs?
Have you checked the reiser filesystem on /home?
log on to the system from a black console as root unmount /home:
umount /home
Is what I got: # umount /home umount: /home: device is busy umount: /home: device is busy
Then, run reiserfsck against /dev/hda3:
reiserfsck /dev/hda3
See what it says... sometimes the tree gets fouled up and things don't look right. In that case you may get a message that says you need to rebuild the tree.... like this....:
reiserfsck /dev/hda3 --rebuild-tree
This is sometimes an extreme step... and it can take a while (on large partitions like yours)
There may be something I am not aware of here like max partition sizes 'n such... I have never made a partition for /home that large on any of my systems.... so, I don't know. Somebody else on this list will know though.
On Friday 15 September 2006 02:40, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
umount /home
Is what I got:
# umount /home umount: /home: device is busy before you umount /home put the machine in single user mode by using the init command:
init 1 ..... then .... umount /home then ..... reiserfsck /dev/hda3 After you check the filesystem, remember to mount /home and then place the machine in init 5. mount /home init 5 -- Kind regards, M Harris <><
M Harris wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 02:40, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
umount /home
Is what I got:
# umount /home umount: /home: device is busy
before you umount /home put the machine in single user mode by using the init command:
init 1
..... then ....
umount /home
then .....
reiserfsck /dev/hda3
After you check the filesystem, remember to mount /home and then place the machine in init 5.
mount /home init 5
Hi. I did that, and no problems. The output is here: http://www.urbakken.dk/reiser.jpg The problem persists, but as I understand it, the reiserfsck is just a check ? The reiserfsck went very quick, and I wonder about that ?
On Friday 15 September 2006 00:47, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
M Harris wrote:
I did that, and no problems.
The output is here:
http://www.urbakken.dk/reiser.jpg
The problem persists, but as I understand it, the reiserfsck is just a check ?
The reiserfsck went very quick, and I wonder about that ?
Stop wondering Erik. That's half the reason for using reiserfs, it checks in no-time. No more waiting 20 minutes for your big disk to fsck with your boss waiting for his sales-report. Have you figured out which utility is giving you the error message? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi. I'm receiving this message on my 10.1:
You are running low on disk space on your home partition (currently -26% free), would you like to run Konqueror to free some disk space and fix the problem?
How can I increase the diskspace?. I know I can delete files/directories, but this is not what I want to do. I want to keep the content, and make the space greater.
If you're using Logical Volume Management, you can increase the size of the partition, assuming there's some free space available. Failing that, you can move /home to a larger partition, perhaps on another drive.
Ok James. here's the partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2874 19929 137002320 83 Linux
Home is at /dev/hda3, and I'm sure I don't have so much nearly occupied.
How is it, that I can see how much the files/directories consumes ?
Try the du and df commands
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