I installed Fedora Core 5 all worked well , got the latest version of Eclipse downloaded and it seems I have run out of space to extract it . I have the 3 questions : 1. how much space is alloted to each folder by default as the folders seem to show a free space value . 2. how do I resize the space alloted to the folders by default . 3. how do I check to see how much space each folder in / is using ?? here is the output of : df -a -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 8.8G 8.2G 95M 99% / proc 0 0 0 - /proc sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts /dev/hda3 104M 18M 82M 18% /boot tmpfs 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs automount(pid1774) 0 0 0 - /net /dev/fuse 49G 47G 1.8G 97% /root/mydocuments /dev/fuse 22G 14G 8.1G 63% /c
Cheers , Francis
On 7/26/06, Francis mail.francispereira@gmail.com wrote:
I installed Fedora Core 5 all worked well , got the latest version of Eclipse downloaded and it seems I have run out of space to extract it . I have the 3 questions :
- how much space is alloted to each folder by default as the folders
seem to show a free space value .
There is nothing like that. The freespace alloted is reduced to the total space on the mounted partition.
2. how do I resize the space alloted to the folders by default .
- how do I check to see how much space each folder in / is using ??
give a command as , "du -sh" or "du -h"
it will so the total disc usage of the current folder.
here is the output of : df -a -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 8.8G 8.2G 95M 99% / proc 0 0 0 - /proc sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts /dev/hda3 104M 18M 82M 18% /boot tmpfs 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs automount(pid1774) 0 0 0 - /net /dev/fuse 49G 47G 1.8G 97% /root/mydocuments /dev/fuse 22G 14G 8.1G 63% /c
Cheers , Francis
Pushparajan V wrote:
On 7/26/06, Francis mail.francispereira@gmail.com wrote:
I installed Fedora Core 5 all worked well , got the latest version of Eclipse downloaded and it seems I have run out of space to extract it . I have the 3 questions :
- how much space is alloted to each folder by default as the folders
seem to show a free space value .
There is nothing like that. The freespace alloted is reduced to the total space on the mounted partition.
Here is the math : du -m . | awk '/^[0-9 \t]+./[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$/ {print}' 21 ./sbin 1 ./temp 1 ./opt 359 ./home 140 ./var 1 ./srv 8 ./bin 1 ./misc 11 ./boot 0 ./net 1 ./c 1 ./media 1 ./dev 1 ./mnt 1 ./selinux 44964 ./root 5757 ./usr 382 ./lib 646 ./tmp 100 ./etc 483 ./proc 0 ./sys 52880 MB Thats the total - 45158.4 MB thats the mydocs mounted on /root/mydocs = 7721.6 MB = ~7.5 GB where is the .5 GB gone as sfdisk -l /dev/hda5 8498+ 9728 1231- 9887976 8e Linux LVM only /dev seems to have ~250 MB of free space Cheers , Francis
On 7/26/06, Francis mail.francispereira@gmail.com wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
read my post carefull
Please have a look at the math . the .5 GB as u say has been subtracted . Ayways . if /dev can have 250 mb free , Why cant i allocate that space somewhere else .
5% disk space is reserved for the root user as Dinesh mentioned. That's what he's asking you to read. According to that approx 400MB is reserved for root. So for a normal user only 100 MB is available. That way the math works out.
Regards, Siddhesh
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:23, Francis wrote:
I installed Fedora Core 5 all worked well , got the latest version of Eclipse downloaded and it seems I have run out of space to extract it
No.1 Fedora Core has nothing to do with this.
No.2 You have given insufficient information. Where were you trying to extract eclipse?
. I have the 3 questions :
- how much space is alloted to each folder by default as the
folders seem to show a free space value .
You mean the mount points right? Dont call them folders or directories. /home, /var, / are all mount points and not folders. They are allocated space while partitioning. If you selected manual partitioning then you should know it but it seems otherwise. So by default the most disk space is allocated to / and /home mount points. The swap is allocated space equal to your RAM. Other partitions, if any, are allocated space accordingly.
- how do I resize the space alloted to the folders by default.
Why would you want to do that? Its messy.
- how do I check to see how much space each folder in / is using ??
here is the output of : df -a -H
du
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 8.8G 8.2G 95M 99% /
You have used up 8.2G of space on the / partition. So ~0.6G of space remains. But Linux shows only 95M free. The anomaly that you see is because the ext2 FS allocates 5% of the disk space as a buffer to the root user so the system may seem to run out of space but the root user is still able to manage with the shortage of space.
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:48, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 26/07/06 20:10 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
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You mean the mount points right? Dont call them folders or directories. /home, /var, / are all mount points and not folders. They
Mount points are directories.
Yes, may be technically, but we still have the phrase 'mount point' so why not use it? Otherwise it'll feel dejected, sad, jealous, unloved and maybe something more! Not to mention all the other psychological problems it might develop :) (j/k)
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:23, Francis wrote:
I installed Fedora Core 5 all worked well , got the latest version of Eclipse downloaded and it seems I have run out of space to extract it
No.1 Fedora Core has nothing to do with this.
No.2 You have given insufficient information. Where were you trying to extract eclipse?
there is no anywhere except /dev that has space above a 100 mb
. I have the 3 questions :
- how much space is alloted to each folder by default as the
folders seem to show a free space value .
You mean the mount points right? Dont call them folders or directories. /home, /var, / are all mount points and not folders. They are allocated space while partitioning. If you selected manual partitioning then you should know it but it seems otherwise. So by default the most disk space is allocated to / and /home mount points. The swap is allocated space equal to your RAM. Other partitions, if any, are allocated space accordingly.
- how do I resize the space alloted to the folders by default.
Dinesh, it still does not explain where the space is used . most directories in / show a free space of 99.1MB the the contents in it are higher . So we are back to square one .
Cheers, Francis
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 21:10, Francis wrote:
Dinesh, it still does not explain where the space is used . most directories in / show a free space of 99.1MB the the contents in it are higher . So we are back to square one .
Check out pushparajan's mail. It'll shed some light on your predicament.
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