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#1 2008-01-20 13:06:19

Demind
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Registered: 2007-07-10
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Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

Everything is on the subject, using conky as a system monitor or scanning my file system with baobab (gnome utility) i see that my / partition has 7.8 GB of files but if i try to search "phisically" these files i can find only 5.5 GB...where are the remaining 2.3 GB?
The partition is formatted with XFS filesystem...
thanks


p.s. Baobab sees 7.8 GB but when i look at the files detail below this number i can find only 5.5 GB like i said before

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#2 2008-01-20 13:38:10

sykesm
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Re: Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

what shows if you do the following at the command line
>$ df -k

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#3 2008-01-20 13:50:44

Demind
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Re: Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

Filesystem              blocchi di   1K               Usati                       Disponib.           Uso%           Montato su
/dev/sda1             15347840                      8182668                        7165172              54%             /
/dev/sda2             125205652                    17447956                      107757696            14%              /home

There are some words in italiana but i believe you know the layout of the output so it won't be too difficult to understand it.
However it seems that i'm using 54% of my root partition and this is 7.8 GB, 8.182.688 KB

Last edited by Demind (2008-01-20 13:54:20)

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#4 2008-01-20 14:04:55

sykesm
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Re: Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

try the following the "du -sh *" should show the distribution. 
cd /
sudo du -sh *

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#5 2008-01-20 14:14:27

Demind
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Re: Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

voilà:

5,3M    bin
18M    boot
376K    dev
7,2M    etc
17G    home
88M    lib
0    lib64
0    media
0    mnt
3,5G    opt
0    proc
13M    root
14M    sbin
0    srv
0    sys
24K    tmp
1,7G    usr
88M    var

as you can see it gives nearly 5.5 GB...(excluding /home)

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#6 2008-01-22 18:32:56

sykesm
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From: Reading, UK
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Re: Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

just spotted this, I haven't read it through in detail myself; probably worth a look.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37265

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#7 2008-01-22 19:15:55

elgatofelix
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Posts: 137

Re: Problems with root ( / ) partititon dimension

maybe u have files that are X size but the filesystem stores them in X-n size as a matter of space and efficience.
I have several images where i've installed qemu virtual and look:

du *qemu
634M    freebsd_qemu
391M    netbsd_qemu
4,0K    openbsd_qemu
[memo@amigopepe Desktop] ls *qemu -lh
-rw-r--r-- 1 memo users  5,1G ene 22 00:40 freebsd_qemu
-rw-r--r-- 1 memo users 1000M ene 21 19:56 netbsd_qemu
-rw-r--r-- 1 memo users  1,3G ene  7 02:11 openbsd_qemu


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