[wplug] partition question

[Coutch, Robert]

Since your /usr and /usr/local are showing the exact same stats (according
to df),
my guess is that they are not on separate partitions on the hard disk.
It looks like /usr/local is not mounted correctly.

Please send the actual fstab (unmodified) so we can see what you have there.

-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:51 AM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] partition question


> I have a 40 GB hard drive that I split down the middle (20GB
> windows/20GB Linux). I set aside 11GB for /usr/local (/dev/hda3) and 2GB
> for /usr (/dev/hda6). I have downloaded some large files (~1GB total)
> onto /usr/local/ that should not have filled up its space but it did.
> Here is the output of fdisk (clipped for length) and modified to include
> the mount point.


> Mount Point  Device      Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> c:           /dev/hda1   *           1      2433  19543041    7 HPFS/NTFS
> /            /dev/hda2            2434      2554    971932+  83  Linux
> /usr/local/  /dev/hda3            2555      3950  11213370   83  Linux
>              /dev/hda4            3951      4864   7341705    5 Extended
> /home        /dev/hda5            3951      4450   4016218+  83  Linux
> /usr         /dev/hda6            4451      4700   2008093+  83  Linux
> /var         /dev/hda7            4701      4825   1004031   83  Linux
>
> Now, here is the output of 'df' run as root.
> 
> >>
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             19543040   9466155  10076886  49% /dosc
> /dev/hda2               941428    642316    250516  72% /
> /dev/hda3              1945132   1910504         0 100% /usr/local
> /dev/hda5              3890292    407028   3282456  12% /home
> /dev/hda6              1945132   1910504         0 100% /usr
> /dev/hda7               972532     39068    883264   5% /var
> 
> Here's the output of fstab
> 
> /dev/hda1      /dosc       ntfs       defaults   1    0
> /dev/hda2       /        ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hda3       /usr/local      ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hda5       /home      ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hda6       /usr      ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hda7       /var      ext2        defaults   1   1
> 
> So, can somebody explain to this Linux newbie why I don't have the space
> on /usr/local like I think I do?

from a glance, i can't really tell you exactly what is wrong ... but i do
know that the slight discrepency in the block sizes between fdisk and df
can be explained by the fact that a certain percentage of a partition is
"reserved" for root.  'man mkfs.ext2' might tell you a bit more about it
.. i'm not certain of a way to check how much of the partition is reserved
though.  might be worth looking into.  good luck


coldie

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