Installed Ubuntu Server on new disk and it already says 70Gb is used?

Spooter · 12 Oct 2009 at 10:06

Hi all,

I have just installed ubuntu server onto a new 1.5tb disk and selected guided partitions - use entire disk.

I then installed Webmin and this is showing 70Gb used already.

Any ideas?

rsatd · 12 Oct 2009 at 10:56

Run "df -h" in $TERM
And post here.

Spooter · 12 Oct 2009 at 12:20

Ok will do when I get home.

craptakular · 12 Oct 2009 at 12:23

I think it reserves circa 5% for "admin space"

Spooter · 12 Oct 2009 at 12:33

Ok I guess that would be about right then for a 1.5tb disk

deadite66 · 12 Oct 2009 at 12:58

you can reduce that 5%, tune2fs

-m reserved-blocks-percentage
Set the percentage of reserved filesystem blocks.

Spooter · 12 Oct 2009 at 23:08

The output of a df -u

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 1.4T 1.4G 1.3T 1% /
tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1003M 508K 1002M 1% /var/run
varlock 1003M 0 1003M 0% /var/lock
udev 1003M 140K 1003M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1003M 2.4M 1000M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-server/volatile

This shows I have 1.3Tb to play with then?

Webmin shows

Local disk space 1.34 TB total, 70.55 GB used

Regards

rsatd · 13 Oct 2009 at 10:09

df shows you have used 1.4G, so I am not so sure why webmin shows 70gb...

Might want to read the help manual on it and see what it thinks is the used space.

Spooter · 13 Oct 2009 at 10:42

Its a new install how could I have used 1.4tb?

Surely that is showing my disk have 1.4tb available?

Minto · 13 Oct 2009 at 17:45

Spooter said:
Its a new install how could I have used 1.4tb?

Surely that is showing my disk have 1.4tb available?

G not T

Spooter · 13 Oct 2009 at 19:05

G not T

Ah spotted.

john_s · 13 Oct 2009 at 23:37

It's showing you have used 1.4GB, not 1.4TB

Spooter · 14 Oct 2009 at 09:20

Ah sorry stupid moment there. Ok not sure why Webmin shows 70Gb already used? Any ideas?

LizardKing · 14 Oct 2009 at 10:16

Probably just a bug in Webmin, i wouldnt worry to much

edit - one of mide shows 14gb used when in reality its 3gb

rsatd · 14 Oct 2009 at 11:40

I think simpler way would be to write a shell script yourself that will run all the commands you want regarding the status of things and output to a text file or something. Put .htaccess on it and it should be secure enough. Shell script can run automatically by cron.

leezer3 · 14 Oct 2009 at 12:19

LizardKing said:
Probably just a bug in Webmin, i wouldnt worry to much
edit - one of mide shows 14gb used when in reality its 3gb

/Headbash

As posted above, this is the root reseved space for EXT3 filesystems. Webmin is just being slightly ambiguous (Used== Unavailable)

Wouldn't worry about this until you actually run out of space TBQH. I'd also note that turning off root reserved space can have some quite nasty consquences if the whole drive fills up. (Basically turns into a non-boot scenario whereby you need a livecd to delete some files to give it enough space to do anything)

-Leezer-

Spooter · 14 Oct 2009 at 12:36

Cheers for the replies all.

Anyone here publishing there Webmin page out to the world so you can check on stuff while working away?

LizardKing · 14 Oct 2009 at 13:58

leezer3 said:
/Headbash

As posted above, this is the root reseved space for EXT3 filesystems. Webmin is just being slightly ambiguous (Used== Unavailable)

-

So its a bug!

leezer3 · 14 Oct 2009 at 23:53

No, it's not a bug. I'll again point out that the wording is ambiguous, but it's entirely as intended.
Free space== Space available for writing to by a 'normal' user. (In other words, how much crap you can stuff on)

The root reserved space can only be used by root, ergo it's unavailable & used from a 'normal' users perspective.
If you enable root as a user for Webmin, you'll see the total free space available including the root reserved. (NOT recommended, opens you to all sorts of holes)

Moving back onto topic, if you have any decent degree of understanding of the command line, I'd recommend setting up a remote SSH shell as opposed to Webmin.
Webmin gives you all the data in a nice web interface, but anything more complicated and it falls over. Torrenting also tends to slow it to a crawl, whereas SSH is less affected.

-Leezer-