Michael,
When you run ls -l, you are seeing the size of the folders and files in
that directory. In your example you are looking at the root directory. Each
directory takes 4096 bytes. This is the size of the directory entry, not
the contents of the directory. To see the size of all the files inside the
folder, you will have to type ls /bin, for example. See the man page for ls.
To find the size of a particular directory such as /bin (ie all the files
and directories in /bin including the 4096 bytes for the directory /bin),
try du -hs /bin. The -h option prints the size in human readable form (ie
KB, MB, GB, etc) and the -s option summarizes the results. Without the -s,
you will see the size of each top level directory inside of /bin.
Check the man pages for df and du.
df is showing you that your drive is 96% full.
IMO you need to quickly make some space on this drive or you may have some
issues.
Mark
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> my system warned me that I only have a gig of space left. But when I open
> the disk usage analyzer and scan the filesystem / is 96% full but none of
> the folders it contains show they are full at all (except home which is on
> it's own partition. The directory of / shows that it is only 7600 full :
>
> bmike1@c521 / $ ls -l
> total 104
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 24 08:39 bin
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 9 06:33 boot
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 2014 cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4560 Sep 25 10:19 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 2014 entertainment
> drwxr-xr-x 164 root root 12288 Sep 25 10:19 etc
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 6 17:35 home
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 22 2014 initrd.img ->
> boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-37-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 25 2014 initrd.img.old ->
> boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
> drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Mar 16 2015 lib
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 2015 lib32
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 2015 lib64
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Oct 25 2014 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 26 2014 media
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 2 2015 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 23 2015 opt
> dr-xr-xr-x 214 root root 0 Sep 25 09:36 proc
> drwx------ 14 root root 4096 Mar 6 2015 root
> drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 940 Sep 25 09:43 run
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 24 08:39 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 29 2014 srv
> dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 25 09:37 sys
> drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4096 Sep 25 17:44 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 11 2014 usr
> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 3 2014 var
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 22 2014 vmlinuz ->
> boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 25 2014 vmlinuz.old ->
> boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic
>
> $ df /
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1 23642608 21332532 1086256 96% /
>
> Where did all of my space go?
> Is my understanding wrong?
> --
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