David Wright wrote: > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 17:13:44 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On sex, 04 jan 2019, David Wright wrote: >> > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 16:52:45 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> > > And in this case, the problem is easy to solve: >> > > rm /path/to/some/large/files/* >> > >> > Wrong again. The free space on /home is sufficient to hold 10 copies >> > of the entire / filesystem. And you presuppose that these large files >> > exist, for which the OP has currently shown no evidence. >> >> The used disk space must be somewhere. But you're right, there is >> another possibility: lots of small files that together occupy a lot of >> space. > > There's at least one other scenario that it would be worth eliminating > by checking that this equation is true (allowing for filesystem overheads): > > # du -shx > + > $ df's Available > ≃ > partition's size. > > This checks whether the mountpoints for /var and so on had files in > them before the partitions were mounted. These files would consume > filespace but not be detected by du.
very good points i hadn't considered. i do know it happens. thanks for the reminder. :) songbird