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Voyager One

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Registered: 2007-06-06

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Strange disk space issues

Hi

I've installed the latest version of Arch onto an old Dell Latitude CPi laptop (300MHz PII, 128MB RAM). When trying to install additional packages, pacman complains that the disk is full, although 'du -hc /' shows that only ~620MB are used ('/' partition is 4GB, so I should have over 3GB free space). Trying to run other apps also ended with errors about not enough disk space. My first solution was to reinstall, but use ReiserFS for the '/' partition instead of ext3. Unfortunately it didn't help. Is there a solution to this weird problem?

kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

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Re: Strange disk space issues

How much space is left according to `df -h`?

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

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Re: Strange disk space issues

Maybe you're out of inodes? (df -i)

Voyager One

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Registered: 2007-06-06

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Re: Strange disk space issues

Filesystem    Size    Used    Avail    Use%    Mounted on
-             589M    579M    9.5M     99%     /

This is really embarrassing... Looks like I've assigned the wrong partition to '/' during install. I could have sworn the partition names were different during install: /dev/sda2 – 4GB - '/', /dev/sda3 – ~600MB – swap; /dev/sda1 - hidden partition with BIOS setup utilities. Now cfdisk shows that /dev/sda1 is 4GB, /dev/sda2 ~600MB, and /dev/sda3 is ~160MB. According to /etc/fstab, /dev/sda3 is mounted as swap. I just hope nothing happened to the BIOS setup utilities. I'll try to reinstall again and see how it goes.

EDIT: looks like the joke's on me. I didn't pay enougt attention and assumed that cfdisk displays partitions in correct sequential order - sda1, sda2 and so on. I my case everything was mixed up. Sorry for bothering you all. Arch runs great on this old machine.

Last edited by Voyager One (2007-06-09 06:33:29)