On Linux, the system, reserves a percentage of space that only root can
use so that a user can't completely crash a system by fill up the hard
drive. The limit is usually set to %5 of the hard drive which appears
to be exactly what you have reached give or take.
Brian Cluff
On 09/25/2015 03:11 PM, Michael Havens 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?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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