Disk usage error

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-01-20 01:49:37, William John Murray wrote:
> 
>   Hello all,
>          Can anyone help me with a disk usage problem? I have a disk
> partition of 65GB in LVM; df says:
> 
> /dev/dm-0             65570580  60494828   1744888  98% /
> 
> However, if I use either du or Baobab they reckon the directories in
> it add up to 30Gb or so. As it is my root directory, and there are
> various others it is a little difficult to get the total, so I booted 
> under liveUSB and saw exactly the same - 30Gb used, but 98% full.
>    So something is stealing half my disk. If I try to write more it 
> is out of space.
>    Any ideas how I get my space back? fsck reports the disk is clean.

If the filesystem seems clean you need to use the -f option to force 
the check to actually happen.

If that doesn't help, you could copy everything to someplace else, make 
a new filesystem, and copy back again, assuming you have a "someplace 
else".  cpio or tar would work, booted from liveUSB.

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