ext3 disk full

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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> purge old kernels, unused packages, and maybe dump some old logs.  I presume
> yoou have emptied trash.  You could try using the Computer Janitor on the
> System/Administration menu but I think I have heard mixed opinions about
> it.  When you use the disk usage analyzer, be sure to have it scan the whole
> file system if you don't know where the extra space is being consumed.
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> My 250GB ext3 disk on Ubuntu 10.4 is full.  I can't find more than 20GB
>> worth of data on the disk.  Disk Usage Analyzer and GUI file tools show the
>> disk with only 10GB free.  Disk utility and e2fsck show the drive as fine so
>> I can't get it to repair itself.  Even so I have about 220GB of mystery data
>> on the disk.
>>
>>
ya, what Dazed_75 said
FSLint will be helpful and remember the disk is likely to have a
certain percentage (up to %10) of the mounts size reserved for root's
use - a just in case feature.
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/