Hi
I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
Where did the space go?

Here is some output which may be useful.
command: du -hcs /*

3.3M /bin
5.8M /boot
128K /dev
23M /etc
4.0K /fai
893M /home
4.0K /initrd
44M /lib
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
4.0K /mnt
4.0K /opt
507M /proc
3.8G /root
9.6M /sbin
4.0K /srv
4.0K /sys
68K /tmp
2.5G /usr
137M /var
0 /vmlinuz
0 /vmlinuz.old
7.9G total

Command: df

I run df, get the following
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% /
tmpfs 253668 0 253668 0%
/dev/shm
/dev/hda1 77749 10032 63703 14% /boot
/dev/hda10 12649928 946956 1574456 8% /home
/dev/hda8 2016016 32876 1983140 2% /tmp
/dev/hda9 15124868 2635568 11720996 19% /usr
/dev/hda7 4032092 172316 3654952 5% /var

How can I find the missing space?

Thanks

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:08:46PM -0600, jie gong wrote:
> Hi
> I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
> My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
> partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
> Where did the space go?
>
> Here is some output which may be useful.
> command: du -hcs /*
>
> 3.3M /bin
> 5.8M /boot
> 128K /dev
> 23M /etc
> 4.0K /fai
> 893M /home
> 4.0K /initrd
> 44M /lib
> 16K /lost+found
> 4.0K /media
> 4.0K /mnt
> 4.0K /opt
> 507M /proc
> 3.8G /root

right here. your /root directory is 3.8G. How did you end up with so
much crap in /root? /root is the home directory for the root user and
should generally not be that full. regardless though, /root is part of
/ which is /dev/hda6. You have not mounted /root from another
partition. So that 3.8G has taken over your / partition.

>
> Command: df
>
> I run df, get the following
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% /

you have not put /root on another partition, so it is part of this
one, which is clearly full.

A

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On 01/18/07 17:08, jie gong wrote:
> Hi
> I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
> My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
> partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
> Where did the space go?
>
> Here is some output which may be useful.
> command: du -hcs /*
>
> 3.3M /bin
> 5.8M /boot
> 128K /dev
> 23M /etc
> 4.0K /fai
> 893M /home
> 4.0K /initrd
> 44M /lib
> 16K /lost+found
> 4.0K /media
> 4.0K /mnt
> 4.0K /opt
> 507M /proc
> 3.8G /root
> 9.6M /sbin
> 4.0K /srv
> 4.0K /sys
> 68K /tmp
> 2.5G /usr
> 137M /var
> 0 /vmlinuz
> 0 /vmlinuz.old
> 7.9G total
>
> Command: df
>
> I run df, get the following
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% /
> tmpfs 253668 0 253668 0%
> /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1 77749 10032 63703 14% /boot
> /dev/hda10 12649928 946956 1574456 8% /home
> /dev/hda8 2016016 32876 1983140 2% /tmp
> /dev/hda9 15124868 2635568 11720996 19% /usr
> /dev/hda7 4032092 172316 3654952 5% /var
>
> How can I find the missing space?

The 3.8GB of files under /root looks very suspicious.

Another thing I would do is not have so many partitions! If you are
a home user installing a lot of packages, Including OpenOffice.org,
Java, etc, etc, roll /tmp, /usr & /var back into /, and make / at
least 16GB.

$ df -m | sort
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 45 20 22 48% /boot
/dev/hda2 18778 10900 6925 62% /
/dev/hda3 18778 11942 5883 67% /home
/dev/hda4 197129 164934 22182 89% /data/01
tmpfs 506 0 506 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 506 1 506 1% /dev/shm
udev 10 1 10 1% /dev

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From: jie gong [mailto:gongtech2006@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:09 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Why there is no space left on root partition?



Hi
I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
Where did the space go?

Here is some output which may be useful.
command: du -hcs /*

3.3M /bin
5.8M /boot
128K /dev
23M /etc
4.0K /fai
893M /home
4.0K /initrd
44M /lib
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
4.0K /mnt
4.0K /opt
507M /proc
3.8G /root

Looks like the bulk of your root partition is in /root. Did you not notice
the G after the 3.8?




9.6M /sbin
4.0K /srv
4.0K /sys
68K /tmp
2.5G /usr
137M /var
0 /vmlinuz
0 /vmlinuz.old
7.9G total

Command: df

I run df, get the following
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% /
tmpfs 253668 0 253668 0%
/dev/shm
/dev/hda1 77749 10032 63703 14% /boot
/dev/hda10 12649928 946956 1574456 8% /home
/dev/hda8 2016016 32876 1983140 2% /tmp
/dev/hda9 15124868 2635568 11720996 19% /usr
/dev/hda7 4032092 172316 3654952 5% /var

How can I find the missing space?

Thanks

Thanks for the advice.
I looked at the files under /root, and found
there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488.
What is that? Can I delete it?



On 1/18/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:08:46PM -0600, jie gong wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am a newbee to debian linux. I found my root partition is full.
> > My root partition has 4 GB, but I added the size of files under the root
> > partition, anyway they did not hit the 4GB, not even close.
> > Where did the space go?
> >
> > Here is some output which may be useful.
> > command: du -hcs /*
> >
> > 3.3M /bin
> > 5.8M /boot
> > 128K /dev
> > 23M /etc
> > 4.0K /fai
> > 893M /home
> > 4.0K /initrd
> > 44M /lib
> > 16K /lost+found
> > 4.0K /media
> > 4.0K /mnt
> > 4.0K /opt
> > 507M /proc
> > 3.8G /root
>
> right here. your /root directory is 3.8G. How did you end up with so
> much crap in /root? /root is the home directory for the root user and
> should generally not be that full. regardless though, /root is part of
> / which is /dev/hda6. You have not mounted /root from another
> partition. So that 3.8G has taken over your / partition.
>
> >
> > Command: df
> >
> > I run df, get the following
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda6 4032092 4032092 0 100% /
>
> you have not put /root on another partition, so it is part of this
> one, which is clearly full.
>
> A
>
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On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.
> I looked at the files under /root, and found
> there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488.
> What is that? Can I delete it?

That tells me you should not be using X as root.

Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not
run "certain program as root".

You should be using a regular user to do most things and then use "sudo"
for administrative things.

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On 01/18/07 17:43, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote:
>> Thanks for the advice.
>> I looked at the files under /root, and found
>> there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488.
>> What is that? Can I delete it?
>
> That tells me you should not be using X as root.

But Microsoft lets me run *anything* as Administrator!!!!

Why can't I do the same thing in Stupid Old Linux?????

> Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not
> run "certain program as root".
>
> You should be using a regular user to do most things and then use "sudo"
> for administrative things.
>

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On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice.
> > I looked at the files under /root, and found
> > there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488.
> > What is that? Can I delete it?
>
> That tells me you should not be using X as root.
>
> Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not
> run "certain program as root".
>

Either that or he is running programs like kaffeine, kplayer, kmplayer,
avidemux ... anything video related it seems which just pile a ton of junk
into the .xsessions-errors. The same partition full happened to me running as
normal user so using root has nothing to do with it really after I removed
the file I linked it to /dev/null which solved the problem.

Stephen

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