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Subject: Re: /dev/hda full - cannot find used space Date: Saturday 05 August 2006 22:36 From: Robert Jeffrey Miesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried running 'fsck -c /dev/hda1'? That would reveal the presence of orphan nodes, which would certainly consume space. Another possibility is that you might have a lot of bad blocks. To check for this, reboot your system from a boot cd (ideally, from a Knoppix DVD) and run 'e2fsck -c /dev/hda1'. This will tell you how many of the blocks on your root partition are bad. If a great number of them are bad, I would STRONGLY recommend that you tar up your most important files, make a copy of your currently installed packages (you can do this quickly by executing 'dpkg --get-selections > currentSelections'), create a new level 0 backup of your whole hard disk (that is, a full image of your hard drive), go buy a new one and do a bare metal restore of your system (that is, restore your system from the freshly created level 0 backup). Mondo is a great piece of software for the purpose of making a level 0 backup. You can get mondo either by going to http://www.mondorescue.org or by running 'apt-get install mondo'. Hope this helps. On Saturday 05 August 2006 21:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a sarge installation, which has been running perfectly for a year or > so. It runs a small office - mail, ldap, database, network drives, etc. It > was installed in standard sarge multi user configuration. It has an 80GB > hard disk and a 250GB external drive mounted via USB2 for backups > (/mnt/usbdrive). Finally, it uses shfs to mount a remote file system via > ssh (/mnt/martha-pub). > > I have recently noticed that the hda partition is full. The problem is that > I can't see where the space has gone. From the du listings, I can account > for maybe 70MB on hda, but nowhere near 250MB. > > I would be grateful for any help or suggestions. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 250M 250M 0 100% / > tmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda9 65G 23G 39G 37% /home > /dev/hda8 361M 8.3M 333M 3% /tmp > /dev/hda5 4.6G 651M 3.8G 15% /usr > /dev/hda6 2.8G 231M 2.4G 9% /var > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/publish > 5.5G 591M 4.7G 12% /mnt/martha-pub > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -sh . > 25G . > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -sh * > 3.0M bin > 6.7M boot > 0 cdrom > 87K dev > 2.0M etc > 23G home > 1.0K initrd > 0 initrd.img > 46M lib > 12K lost+found > 2.0K media > 321M mnt > 1.0K opt > 482M proc > 24K root > 3.6M sbin > 1.0K srv > 0 sys > 197K tmp > 619M usr > 200M var > 0 vmlinuz > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 34 273073+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 35 9729 77875087+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 35 642 4883728+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 643 1007 2931831 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 1008 1188 1453851 82 Linux swap / > Solaris /dev/hda8 1189 1237 393561 83 Linux > /dev/hda9 1238 9729 68211958+ 83 Linux > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/mtab > /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 > /dev/hda9 /home ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /var ext3 rw 0 0 > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/publish /mnt/martha-pub shfs > version=2,rw,rmode=775,uid=33,gid=50,mnt=/mnt/martha-pub,fd=4 0 0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/fstab > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/publish /mnt/martha-pub shfs > defaults,rmode=775,persistent,uid=33,gid=50 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext3 defaults 0 0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# -- Robert Miesen ------------------------------------------------------- -- Robert Miesen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
