Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[anthony baldwin]

Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jan 11, 2008 6:26 AM, Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk 
> <mailto:lists at amyl.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     'elo.
> 
>     I'm wondering if the list-mind has any collective wisdom to a problem
>     that's just started:
> 
>     I've ran out of disk-space on what mounts as / (and has pretty much
>     everything, apart from /var/run and /var/lock) : df(1) reports that 29G
>     of a 28G disk is used, 100%.
> 
> 
> Depending on what you have running and what's happening to/near your 
> machine, /var/log can get insane pretty fast.
> 
> 
> 
>     Despite having moved at least 4gigs off, fsck(8)'ing, and checking
>     ownership, I'm out of ideas... there ought to be *some* space...
> 
> 
> when you say "moved ... off" I'm wondering how you did this (if you used 
> the filemanager for example).  I had symptoms similar to yours at one 
> point, only to find out that since I used the filenamager to delete 
> files, they were simply copied to ~.Trash and no space was freed.
> 
> Issuing
> #sudo apt-get autoclean
> or
> #sudo apti-get clean
> 
> will clean up your package cache and free some space.
>  
> 
> 
> 
>     It's being mounted rw, as expected.
> 
>     The machine, in itself is fine: apart from X (well, KDE) not wanting to
>     login, but TTY login's fine. Nothing untoward in the start-up sequence.
> 
>     Any thoughts on *why*, despite having moved stuff off, the machine
>     still
>     doesn't think it's got any space?
> 
> 
> depending on how you have your destination media mounted, you may in 
> fact be copying instead of moving, unless you are explicitly issuing mv 
> commands.
> 
> as an outside bet, if you are issuing mv commands and no media is being 
> freed, then my question is: are you sure your destination media is 
> mounted exactly where you are 'mv'ing the files to?  Mount point 
> confusion could be causing these problems even though it seems rather 
> unlikely
> 

maybe you should just delete all those teen pr0n videos...