gorged harddrive

[Ed Greshko]

charles f. zeitler wrote:
> --- Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> 
>> charles f. zeitler wrote:
>>> i've been pruning my "downloads" disk,
>>> rather drastically, and not making a dent.
>>>
>>> today some more, less drastic but still
>>> hefty, same result.
>>>
>>> revisited du- checked it twice - three
>>> times- yup, it reports one directory at
>>> 800+ gb- on a 400gb disk!
>>>
>>> fsck (forced) failed to report any problems,
>>> there don't seem to be any symlinks,
>>> and the sub-direcory sizes are sane...
>>>
>>> any ideas welcome, and appreciated.
>> Instead of telling people what you are seeing it would be better to show the 
>> actual commands and output.
>>
> good point.
> 
> 
> [fedora_8 at Nyarlethotep ~]$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda8             13250836  11459264   1107608  92% /
> /dev/sda9              1898468    825572    974904  46% /tmp
> /dev/sda11           270882768 259964688   5414052  98% /home
> /dev/sda10             1898468   1156484    643992  65% /var
> /dev/sdc1            480719056 370452080 105383136  78% /home/fedora_8/music_vids
> /dev/sda2               101105     17986     77898  19% /boot
> tmpfs                  1037552       248   1037304   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/sdb1            384578164 330445976  34596748  91% /home/fedora_8/torrents_isos
> 
> /dev/sdb1 is the drive under discussion.
> 
> 
> [fedora_8 at Nyarlethotep ~]$ du -sb t*s/*
> 34256010522     torrents_isos/backup
> 883393808812    torrents_isos/data
> 58352749159     torrents_isos/finished
> 75197043648     torrents_isos/finnished
> 18222558607     torrents_isos/isos
> 4781438 torrents_isos/logs
> 16384   torrents_isos/lost+found
> 4096    torrents_isos/lost_meta
> 193903286       torrents_isos/meta
> 1402434610      torrents_isos/new
> 75585799469     torrents_isos/porn
> 4096    torrents_isos/rar
> 1318803 torrents_isos/shas
> 4096    torrents_isos/tmp
> 97996487        torrents_isos/total_meta.tar.bz2
> 4096    torrents_isos/zip
> 
> somethings wrong with t*s/data  ....
> 

OK....  I believe I know what the problem is.  The torrents_isos/porn 
directory makes things seem larger than what they really are....

No, just kidding.....

I believe you may have a bunch of non-completed torrent downloads.  When you 
start a torrent download the client will reserve the space and it will be 
reflected in the output of "du" but *not* in the output of "df".  Thus with 
"du" you can have a situation where it "thinks" more disk space is being 
used than it actually is.  FWIW, this is normal.