Home dir FULL

[Herman Aalderink]

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 22:52 -0500, Ron Scott-Adams wrote:
> It looks like you attempted to use /media/ban1home_ for your home
> directory (/dev/sdb6). However, you have /dev/sda9 set as the root
> partition, and have not mapped home anywhere else, so it’s going where
> the rest of your files go.

I did not change the original HOME.
/media/ban1home_ is used for data-storage. I put things there manually.
  (afaik the system does not use that partition)
In file-manager, after start-up, I click on /media/ban1home_ to mount
the partition.

> 
> There’s some pieces of the puzzle missing here. Can you post the
> output of the following:
> sudo fdisk -l    < see below
> 
> 
> sudo cat /etc/fstab         <added below.
> 
> 
> Also, a quick tip for you: ls, du and df all have a “human sizes”
> parameter, -h. df -h renders much easier to read sizes, as they will
> round up to MB, GB, etc.

Thanks, added to my file. -Herman

> 
> 
> Ron Scott-Adams
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Herman Aalderink <n0jn at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 



herman1 at Bel2013:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sdb9 during installation
UUID=89b1bd66-b374-471c-9864-10af4a8625d2 /               ext4
errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=0a4d591b-abb2-4c70-aa0a-a9db46212ead none            swap    sw
0       0
# swap was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=24f4af5e-9307-4004-91fe-8b4201f605b1 none            swap    sw
0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
0
herman1 at Bel2013:~$ 

Herman N0JN in Philippines.