Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Keith Clark]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 01:30 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> 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?
> 
Installed.  And it is a great little program!

Keith