Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Xandros Pilosa]

Dne 05.03.2010 (pet) ob 14:58 -0500 je Keith Clark zapisal(a):
> 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:
[snip]
> > 
> > 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
> 

Hello,

this probably means that some proces is writing to the fs in the background.
You can use atop or iotop for detailed disk activity analize, if you are
in the position to install one of them. Otherwise you can use top or
system monitor to watch the activity. In any case you should kill the
proces before disk cleanup.
NoOp suggested sbackup and it is also my favorite but would thing of
some indexing tools also: beagle, tracker etc.

Regards