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Free space on Filesystem disappears

Asked by Idle

Hello everybody,

I have a strange problem with my newly installed Ubuntu Heron Hardy 8.04.

Nautilus indicate me that I have 0 free space on my filesystem however my filesystem size is around 30 Go and I have only 8 Go of data on the filesystem.

So, My question is why my filesystem is considered as full by ubuntu ?

if I type df - h I get :
~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 28G 27G 0 100% /
varrun 1007M 104K 1007M 1% /var/run
varlock 1007M 0 1007M 0% /var/lock
udev 1007M 92K 1007M 1% /dev
devshm 1007M 12K 1007M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1007M 43M 965M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1 28G 23G 5.8G 80% /media/Vista
/dev/sda5 19G 173M 18G 1% /media/Gentoo
/dev/sda6 28G 16K 28G 1% /media/Data1
/dev/sda7 45G 29G 15G 67% /media/Data2
overflow 1.0M 44K 980K 5% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 28G 27G 0 100% /home/user/.gvfs

This problems arise after I made a try with a software call sleuthkit and autopsy to recover data on one of my partition (/dev/sda6) FAT32 filesystem. Maybe there is a link with my space free problem.

If someone can help me I will be please.

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Elfy (elfy) said : 		#1

Your root drive is full -

/dev/sda2 28G 27G 0 100% /

I would suggest that when you tried to recover data it has filled your drive you will need to clean it.

You might be able to clean your apt cache and gain enough room to boot into the system.

Boot into recovery mode, you should get a small menu with 4(?) options - choose drop to root prompt and run

apt-get clean

Reboot the pc and you should be able to login, now you can use baobab to find where the space has gone

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