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Peet

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Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

df reports this:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              7566432   6927756    254324  97% /
udev                     10240       204     10036   2% /dev
shm                    1953464         0   1953464   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               132206     19376    106004  16% /boot

cfdisk paints a different picture:

    Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
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    sda1        Boot        Primary   Linux ext3       [boot]            139.83 
    sda2                    Primary   Linux swap / Solaris              4301.83
    sda3                    Primary   Linux ext3                      400003.60
    sda4                    Primary   NTFS             [^N^A]          95660.01

Disk quotas etc are not enabled in fstab.  Any idea what else might be limiting my home folder's size in such a manner?

Last edited by Peet (2010-09-15 20:10:54)

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Re: Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

Please use thumbnails. I have removed the image you had.

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Re: Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

Your /home is a part of your /, which indeed is full, because your filesystem is smaller than the partion. You got thee choices:

1. Grow / to max size

2. split out /home

3. grow / by a bit, and split out /home on the rest of the free space.

Personally I would go for option 2 or 3.

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Re: Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

df: /dev/sda3              7566432   6927756    254324  97% /
cfdisk:     sda3                    Primary   Linux ext3                      400003.60

7.2 v. 400 GB.

/dev/sda1 (boot) is the same for both.

7 GB might be the default size for / in the Arch install, so the rest of your drive is unused.

Last edited by karol (2010-09-15 16:45:09)

Peet

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Re: Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

Your /home is a part of your /, which indeed is full, because your filesystem is smaller than the partion. You got thee choices:

1. Grow / to max size

2. split out /home

3. grow / by a bit, and split out /home on the rest of the free space.

Personally I would go for option 2 or 3.

Ah ok, I had no idea you could have a filesystem smaller than its partition.  I'll go with #1, I only have one user and don't really want to have separate partitions for the root and /home.  resize2fs is chugging away happily.  Thanks!

karol

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Re: Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

I only have one user and don't really want to have separate partitions for the root and /home.

Separate / and /home is more about separating apps from your data.