[ubuntu-za] Filesysytem >Root

[Raymond Barbour]

Bill,
Google ext4 free reserved space. Most linux systems reserve 5% of the space,
this it's the difference between the free space and the available space
Raymond
On Aug 29, 2011 12:14 PM, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Raoul Snyman
> <raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:34:37 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
>>> Would appreciate your help.
>>
>> Please provide us with more details, like what your partition table looks
>> like. We can't help you much with very little information.
>
> I am not sure how to do that.
>>
>> Some things you can do:
>>
>> 1. Check how much space you are using:
>>   - Open Terminal
>>   - Type in "df -Th" (without the quotes) and press enter
>>   This should show you the different file systems, and how much they are
>> used.
>
> bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 ext4 9.2G 8.1G 624M 94% /
> none devtmpfs 990M 328K 990M 1% /dev
> none tmpfs 994M 140K 994M 1% /dev/shm
> none tmpfs 994M 204K 994M 1% /var/run
> none tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /var/lock
> none tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /lib/init/rw
> /dev/sda6 ext4 138G 50G 81G 38% /home
> /dev/sdb1 ext4 459G 200G 236G 46% /media/Thomas
> bill at Lucy:~$
>
>> 2. I think Ubuntu has this "trash" folder, like Windows' recycle bin.
Make
>> sure you've emptied the trash.
>
> That gave me 48 megs
>> 3. Clear out old cached packages with "sudo apt-get clean"
>>
>>
>
> I did that and then df again:
>
> bill at Lucy:~$ sudo apt-get clean
> [sudo] password for bill:
> bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 ext4 9.2G 7.9G 844M 91% /
> none devtmpfs 990M 396K 990M 1% /dev
> none tmpfs 994M 140K 994M 1% /dev/shm
> none tmpfs 994M 204K 994M 1% /var/run
> none tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /var/lock
> none tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /lib/init/rw
> /dev/sda6 ext4 138G 50G 82G 38% /home
> /dev/sdb1 ext4 459G 200G 236G 46% /media/Thomas
> bill at Lucy:~$
>
>
> Thanks - winning slowly!
>
> Bill
>
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