df reports disk 100% in use

I have FC4 on a gateway machine with only a 4G drive. I knew it was
going to be close, but I had about 15% available after install. I
haven't installed anything, and today df reports 0% free. On older
boxes I have always found log files to be the cause, but that does not
seem to be the case here as none of the log files are very large. I
thought trash may be a problem but it's empty.

Any suggestions where to start to look?

Thanks,

Bill


William Gill

William Gill wrote:
> I have FC4 on a gateway machine with only a 4G drive. I knew it was
> going to be close, but I had about 15% available after install. I
> haven't installed anything, and today df reports 0% free. On older
> boxes I have always found log files to be the cause, but that does not
> seem to be the case here as none of the log files are very large. I
> thought trash may be a problem but it's empty.
>
> Any suggestions where to start to look?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill

If you are still able to do anything on the box- try using the du
command to find where that space is taken up- (xdiskusage is a nice gui
if you want to use it instead). If you can't do anything with it- take
the disk out and examine the usage from another machine using the same
tools. Hope this helps.

Seth

I found the culprit, and a simple 'yum clean all' did the trick.

Thanks,

Bill


Seth Morecraft wrote:
> William Gill wrote:
>
>> I have FC4 on a gateway machine with only a 4G drive. I knew it was
>> going to be close, but I had about 15% available after install. I
>> haven't installed anything, and today df reports 0% free. On older
>> boxes I have always found log files to be the cause, but that does not
>> seem to be the case here as none of the log files are very large. I
>> thought trash may be a problem but it's empty.
>>
>> Any suggestions where to start to look?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> If you are still able to do anything on the box- try using the du
> command to find where that space is taken up- (xdiskusage is a nice gui
> if you want to use it instead). If you can't do anything with it- take
> the disk out and examine the usage from another machine using the same
> tools. Hope this helps.
>
> Seth