Missing space!

Eriedor · 20 Jun 2008 at 12:36

I have /home on its own partition with a total size of 964.9 MiB, free space of 101.5 MiB Available of 52.8 MiB and 863.5 MiB used.

Now can someone tell me firstly why is available half of free space and secondly why when i go to properties of home it says that total size is only 298.8 MB?

Really need this missing space!

Minto · 20 Jun 2008 at 12:42

ext3 uses some of the space for journaling I think. You're best off booting a live cd and using gparted to resize your partitions.

Eriedor · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:01

I understand journaling may be a factor but it cannot possibly be taking up 500+ MB's.

To clarify 298.8 MB is what is used on the /home partition when i go to file properties, where as system monitor says 863.5 MiB is used.

yoda · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:17

have you checked the lost and found dir?

if so, unmount home and force a full check on the partition

Eriedor · 20 Jun 2008 at 14:32

lost+found is empty,

strangely when i tried to copy a folder whose properties say is 280MB~ it says copying 630MB~ to new destination.

Any ideas for the rogue file sizes? What do you mean by check the partition yoda?

yoda · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:58

using fsck....
I cant remember off top of my head what the switch is.... but if you do....

Umount /home
fsck /dev/hdb1 -f

where "/dev/hdb1" is the partition with your homes on and "-f" is the switch to force file system checking...

if you do

fsck --help

it will list all the switches

thegoonden · 21 Jun 2008 at 10:00

try running kdirstat, very useful for finding which dirs have used the space.