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#1 2010-03-06 12:24:42

antis
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From: sweden
Registered: 2007-05-18
Posts: 108

disk space running low... but not really.

I installed Arch on a 150Gb HD lately and I'm experiencing a pretty annoying thing regarding available space on the drive.

Here is some info:

fdisk

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104422   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14          79      530145   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              80       19457   155653785   83  Linux
ncdu

    5.2GiB  /home                                                                                                                                    
    1.3GiB  /usr
. 250.6MiB  /var
   82.0MiB  /lib
.  11.2MiB  /boot
   10.5MiB  /sbin
.   6.0MiB  /etc
    3.9MiB  /bin
  164.0kiB  /dev
   20.0kiB  /tmp
    4.0kiB  /media
!   4.0kiB  /root
.   0.0  B  /proc
    0.0  B  /sys
    0.0  B  /srv
e   0.0  B  /mnt
e   0.0  B  /opt

Everything looks good so far and I should have plenty of space left on the device to play with. But using Thunar in xfce I am told that I have only 350Mb free. This is confirmed by the df command and I can see that I have a huge kcore in /proc.

df

/dev/sda3              7655940   7267696    388244  95% /
udev                     10240       164     10076   2% /dev
none                   1033064       140   1032924   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               101105     13014     82870  14% /boot
ll /proc

-r--------  1 root  root  1065349120 Mar  6 13:08 kcore

Now, I understand that the kcore file is a virtual file that really doesn't affect my available space. But yet, it does affect how eg Thunar operates as it doesn't let me use the gigabytes of free space that I should have available.

I like the simple partition layout that I'm using, but is there some way to let the system ignore kcore and show the correct available space? Or am I forced to reinstall and use another partition scheme and work around the kcore size?

Usually I use ext2/3 but this time I thought I'd try jfs. Can that have something to do with this fenomenon? I have never seen this before...

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