Where is my 2G? - BUG in Ubuntu?

[Michael R. Head]

Well, I'm a bit confused about all what you've done below, but you might
consider using baobab (it's in the repository) for analyzing disk space
usage and figuring out where your big files that you might want to
delete are.

mike

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:15 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> That 2G I "lost" is still lost :-(
> Worse, when I login Dapper insists I have no home directory!
> 
> /etc/fstab says:
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/hdb7       /home           ext3    defaults        0       1
> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> So, what the fsck?  What have I done wrong, or what have I forgotten?
> 
> As a temporary fix I copied the dot files from hdb7 to hda2/home.  
> Not only does this "work", but Ubuntu then recognises home on hda7!
> But, as you can see below, the overall effect is that I have moved 3.9G
>  of files away from hda2 for a net gain of 200M!  :-)
> 
> root at hoarykde:/ # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             11661852   9028288   2041168  82% /
> varrun                  387788       144    387644   1% /var/run
> varlock                 387788         4    387784   1% /var/lock
> udev                    387788       152    387636   1% /dev
> devshm                  387788         0    387788   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                     387788     18856    368932   5% /lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/volatile
> /dev/hdb7             11258648   3903072   6783664  37% /home  
> 
> I found kcore - 804.8M - in /proc with all the zero-length files 
> and directories.  Could this be part of the problem? 
> 
> How can I restore my system to health and have the 5G free
>  on hda2 I should have?
> 
> Thanks.
>   
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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