ran out of room

[Mark Phillips]

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 at 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 at 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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