On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:39:26 +0000 nev young crw_1622@hotmail.com wrote:
On 03/01/16 11:23, Chris Walker wrote:
I'm having a problem with my system and I can't see where the solution is despite looking online.
Audacity said that the disc was short of space and just sat there doing nothing. So I killed the task and looked at the space with 'df'.
It shows that /dev/sdb5 has zero space left. Here's the relevant output from df :-
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev tmpfs 3.0G 1.4M 3.0G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 3.0G 940K 3.0G 1% /run /dev/sdb5 7.6G 7.2G 0 100% / /dev/sdb7 7.6G 5.6G 1.7G 78% /usr tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 3.0G 88K 3.0G 1% /tmp /dev/sdb8 849G 202G 647G 24% /home tmpfs 597M 12K 597M 1% /run/user/1000
So where has the 7.6 gigs worth of space gone on sdb5 or am I looking in the wrong place ?
try du -x -d 2 / as superuser as a start to what has used the space.
That produced a long list of stuff so I referred to this page - http://www.cyberciti.biz/datacenter/linux-unix-bsd-osx-cannot-write-to-hard-...
Looking at item 4 cleaned that up but still produced nothing of any use to me (it had things from a NAS drive in there too). So having deleted several kernel related items, I've left it there until the next time. I've kept both the emails though for future reference and to avoid having to ask the same question again.