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[Ian Stuart]

Interesting: 1% of inodes used, but 70% of bytes used.

Are you still getting "disk full" errors?

"df -h /home/*" will allow you to see when directory in /home is big... 
and you can drill down to see what's taking all the space


On 24/08/2020 10:57, Andrew Ramage wrote:
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> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
> tmpfs           387M  1.5M  385M   1% /run
> /dev/sda8        46G   12G   33G  27% /
> tmpfs           1.9G  353M  1.6G  19% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
> tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/sda9       147G   97G   43G  70% /home
> tmpfs           387M   52K  387M   1% /run/user/1000
> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
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> On 24/08/2020 08:45, Ian Stuart wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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Ian Stuart.
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The University of Edinburgh.
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