Re: disappeared hard disk space

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Simon Chen: > > > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. > > The difference is most probably the 5% of space that are reserved for > the root user by de

Re: disappeared hard disk space

2011-08-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16 August 2011 08:36, Simon Chen wrote: > Hi, all. > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. > But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. > Tri

Re: disappeared hard disk space

2011-08-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/08/11 17:36, Simon Chen wrote: Hi, all. I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. Tried, but failed.

Re: disappeared hard disk space

2011-08-16 Thread Jochen Spieker
Simon Chen: > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. The difference is most probably the 5% of space that are reserved for the root user by default. Run 'tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdg8' t

disappeared hard disk space

2011-08-16 Thread Simon Chen
Hi, all. I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. Tried, but failed. I've also run some test and repairs. Un