ran out of room

[Brian Cluff]

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 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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