On 16 August 2011 08:36, Simon Chen <deva1...@gmail.com> 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. I've also run some test and repairs. Unfortunately > nothing's changed. Now I show you the results. > > deva@kyley:~$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 9.2G 7.3G 1.5G 84% / > tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /lib/init/rw > tmpfs 200M 872K 199M 1% /run > udev 992M 0 992M 0% /dev > tmpfs 399M 84K 399M 1% /run/shm > /dev/sda4 184M 32M 143M 19% /boot > /dev/sda6 5.0G 1.8G 3.0G 38% /home > /dev/sda8 91G 85G 937M 99% /home/deva/iwish > /dev/sda1 9.4G 6.1G 3.3G 66% /home/deva/deka > /dev/sda5 33G 30G 2.6G 93% /home/deva/kon <snip> > 5G space's just vanished. It cannot be journal. At least before yesterday > sum of used and free sizes always equaled total size, refered to "df". So > far as I could recall, the mistake may be that I deleted a directory in that > partition when a extraction of files was running unnoticed into the same > directory. Anyhow it was deleted afterwards.
Are you using 'rsnapshot' for your backups by any chance? I've known that to eat up h/d space with ease, it happened to me twice, so i've stopped using it. Take care Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Debian 6, KDE 4.4.5, LibreOffice 3.3.2 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM9u--fh7kiMkRLPA4tSpbDjQ7_3qmvTAcbBVh3=0ykr1yt...@mail.gmail.com
