FX Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Running Slack current and I have a space hog in my /home dir. Here is what I have....... /dev/hda3 9.8G 9.8G 6.6M 100% /home Here is whats in my /home and how big it is. joe@laptop:~$ du -cks * | sort -rn | head -n 11 1068153 total 944729 games 48699 looks 37750 music 9835 pics 8419 Mail 6132 website 5153 downloads 4130 wireless 1911 OpenOffice.org1.1.1 1333 evolution That alone is just a little over a 1 gig. Where or what could be happening to the other 8 something gigs? Thanks to ac_dispatcher too for the cli for the second part. FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted May 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Ok I just went to the windows side and using PM 8 robbed 7 gigs from the windows parition. Now that is coming up "unallocated" and according to cfdisk I can't use it. "Unusable" it says. I think I am in a pretty rough spot. Not really looking forward to a reinstall again. :( FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 ls -la /home maybe you have 8gb of stuff in .hidden dir? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 this can happen when partitions overlap. Run parted --help (view your options -----be careful using it!) parted -i print and see if it says partitions are overlapping. That's all I can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted May 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 (edited) I couldn't find anything using your command or the du -h command either. I further screwed it up by trying to use PM8 to put the unallocated space back to the Windows parition. At that point I screwed up Lilo so it wouldn't boot. I tried to use my Toshiba restore disc and that didn't fix the mbr. So I tried to use my copy of XP Pro, well it got as far as "Startup" and then it quit. Probably a hardware issue, have the same problems with the wifes, have to remove the vid card. Anyways I just decided to put in the Slack install cd's, cfdisk, removed all of the windows parition. Reparitioned for linux only with my /home having 40 gigs this time and root having around 18 gigs. I think that might work?????? As long as the wife doesn't mind a Linux only Laptop I'll get to live. FX Edited May 20, 2004 by FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_learner Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 i would bet you get a real quick BSOD. the error code is probably 0x0000000024. if so then the NTFS.DRV loaded twice on bootup. this is what happened to me, except i wasnt playing with the partitions. basically the NTFS filesystem is hosed. the only fix is fdisk and reinstall. before going that dramatical though, pull out the XP pro cd and go into the recovery console and see if the recovery console will read the windows partition. if it can, run chkdsk -r and -f. then run fixmbr. that might work (if your lucky). otherwise get a livecd and see if linux can read the filesystem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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