Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Keith Clark]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 12:39 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 12:15 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 12:13 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 03/05/2010 11:58 AM, Keith Clark wrote:
> >> ...
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> Do you by chance use sbackup?
> >> 
> >> 
> > Yes, I have for over a year.
> 
> <http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&source=hp&q=sbackup+%2Bdisk+&btnG=Google+Search>
> 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sbackup/+bug/42142>
> [sbackup doesn't check for/prevent full disk]
> 
> Have a look at this thread:
> <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/195909>
> [suddenly filling of hd and no access to x]
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/195946
> 
> What is the result of:
> $ df -h

df -h shows /dev/sdb1 Size: 448G, Used 448G, Avail 0 Use:100% Mounted
On: /

> and
> $ sudo du /var | sort -nr | head -10

2507884 /var
1144184 /var/lib
901420 /var/log

and the rest are much smaller in size.

The whole /var directory is only 2.7 GB.  When I check for used space in
Disk Usage Analyzer, it shows that it is full at 239.1 GM, but at the
top it shows Total filesystem capacity 447.5 GB (used: 447 GB
available:0 bytes)

Very confusing information.



> My guess is that you will find that /var/backup is the culprit.
> 
>