[EdLUG] Help

Ian Stuart Ian.Stuart at ed.ac.uk
Mon Aug 24 07:45:39 UTC 2020



On 24/08/2020 08:03, Andrew Ramage wrote:
> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ df -i
> Filesystem      Inodes  IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> udev            186436    660  185776    1% /dev
> tmpfs           195734   1046  194688    1% /run
> /dev/sda8      3055616 324047 2731569   11% /
> tmpfs           195734    228  195506    1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           195734      6  195728    1% /run/lock
> tmpfs           195734     18  195716    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/sda9      9773056  94537 9678519    1% /home
> tmpfs           195734     38  195696    1% /run/user/1000

"df -i" is displaying inodes.
This is not always the same as free space.

I agree that you appear to have 99% free space

We can see that root & home are different partitions (disk 1, extended
partitions)

What does `df -h" give you?
("-h" is "In Human-readable scale")

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