df does not show free space
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Fri Aug 22 16:14:25 UTC 2008
Colin Brace wrote:
>
> Rashkae-2 wrote:
>> Sigh, NM, I see it now, no root.
>>
>
> Exactly.
>
> Just now, I used e2label to give /dev/sda1, my root partition, the label
> "ubuntu-root". I then changed the fstab entry to use LABEL instead of UUID,
> like this:
>
> # /dev/sda1
> #UUID=22798b82-10e7-4e60-9758-9ae20dba60d7 / ext3
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> LABEL=ubuntu-root / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>
> and rebooted. It now shows up properly:
>
> $ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 7.8G 3.6G 3.9G 49% /
> varrun 886M 124K 886M 1% /var/run
> varlock 886M 0 886M 0% /var/lock
> udev 886M 68K 886M 1% /dev
> devshm 886M 12K 886M 1% /dev/shm
> lrm 886M 39M 848M 5%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
>
> Something is obviously (still) broken somewhere...
>
> -----
> Colin Brace
> Amsterdam
> http://lim.nl
Can you give us the contents of your fstab as well as /proc/mounts
/etc/mtab? (err, you'll have to revert the fstab so we can see it
broken) This problem doesn't appear to be universal by any means.
And bare with me for this train of thought. have you ever experimented
with xfs filesystem on your root partition?
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