newbie in trouble - recovering fstab
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Feb 16 14:20:24 UTC 2005
Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>>You appear to indeed be out of space.
>>Find something that should not be there and delete it to clear out space
>>so the system can write the needed temporary files.
>
> I've emptied /tmp and /var/log and been through my old /home dir. "df"
> still reports disk 100% full! Does mv and rm actually free up space?
> I've done that one several MB of stuff, but it hasn't changed the
> result of df...
>
>>/var/log and /tmp are 2 very dynamic areas that often can fill up extra
>>space. But in your case, it is likely the data that was copied over when
>>trying to move stuff to another partition.
>>
>>Use df to see what space is available, then du to see what parts of the
>>directory tree are overloaded. It should not take a lot of space to
>>allow rebooting but probably a lot of careful pruning of the junk to
>>clean up.
>
>
> I just had another look at df and thought I'd show you the odd result:
>
> 1k Blocks Used Available Use Mounted on
> /dev/hda8 7439683 7196888 0 100% /
>
> Odd - right? There should be nearly 300MB free! (if I've read it right)
>
> Ideas? - Duncan
There is room for around 300MB more data on your disk before you get
"out of space", but only root can use this space; this extra space is
generally reserved by the OS for disk management purposes. Regular users
can only write files when the "Available" space is more than zero i.e.
"Use" is < 100%.
You'll need to delete more files. If you're a yum user, try "yum clean
packages" and see what happens (you might want to look in
/var/cache/yum/*/packages before and after doing this).
Paul.
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