Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Keith Clark]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 15:16 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 16:26 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> >> On Fri, March 5, 2010 14:35, Keith Clark wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:01 -0800, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> >>>> Have you attempted to see if your home partition is mounted correctly?
> >>>>
> >>> Yes, mounted and accessable.  The only way I could solve this was to log
> >>> in in recovery mode and just start deleting away large multimedia files.
> >>> I must have deleted about 100 GB before the drive suddenly recognized
> >>> free space.
> >>>
> >>> I have no idea why this is the case, but I have my machine back to being
> >>> usable.
> >> Now that you have some space you should install ncdu - ncurses disk usage
> >> viewer. It shows you where all the space has gone and enables you to
> >> navigate trough the directories. You can even delete files/dirs with it.
> >>
> >> Install it NOW so that it is accessible the next time you run out of space.
> >>
> >>
> > I don't believe this.  I cleared up so much space.  It read over 70GB
> > free.  Now zero again.
> > 
> > I'm using the GUI Disk Usage Analyzer and it is showing my / full with
> > only 285GB!  It is a 500 GB Drive.
> > 
> > I don't know what else to do here.  I cleaned probably 100-200 GB of
> > space, but my drive only said around 60-70 GB free.  I started it this
> > morning and just let it sit there while I was at work.  I come home and
> > zero bytes free.
> > 
> > Keith
> 
> 	Is your /home on a separate partition from / ? Where did you clear the 
> 100GB + from?
> 	IOW, if your /home directory is a separate partition from /, it doesn't 
> matter how much you clear from under /home, the / will still be full.
> 	When you run the df -h command, does it list / and /home (or whatever 
> directory you cleared files from) temperately/different mount points?
> 
> -- 
> --- Dave Woyciesjes

/ and /home are on the same partition.  When I run df -h is lists only /
not /home

Keith