Home dir FULL

Herman Aalderink n0jn at gmx.net
Fri Feb 14 03:34:04 UTC 2014


On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 09:32 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On 9 February 2014 03:46, Herman Aalderink <hermanaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am out of disk-space for my home-dir. 550MB space left.
> >
> > I reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. System starts up OK.
> 
> Do you mean that you re-installed because home was full?  That should
> not have been necessary.
> 
> >  I reduced evolution.
> > All is working except the Update Manager.
> >
> > How do I solve the problem? I have plenty disk-space.
> > Can I just MOVE the .evolution dir to my data-partition and put a LINK
> > in home?
> >
> > I prefer the 'automatic' way of installing Ubuntu (no manual
> > partitioning). It safes time. It allows me to get out of any problem by
> > re-installation.
> > I use a second drive for data. I thought that would prevent the problem
> > 'out of disk space' for my HOME partition. It did not.
> 
> What does
> df
> show?  Copy/paste the result here.
> 
> Colin
> 

-- 
herman1 at Bel2013:~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9        9094356 8367624    264756  97% /
udev              983396       4    983392   1% /dev
tmpfs             396884     836    396048   1% /run
none                5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
none              992204     204    992000   1% /run/shm
/dev/sdc1        7541872 4004752   3537120  54% /media/FLASH DRIVE
/dev/sdb6       15765248 6267060   8697352  42% /media/ban1home_
herman1 at Bel2013:~$ 

sdc1 is used for external back-ups and any transfers.
The last one is my data HD. (while in file-manager. I click on the
/media/ban1home partition to mount it)

Colin, tks for helping.

Herman N0JN in Philippines.






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