Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 05-03-10 20:58, 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.

But have you installed ncdu already?