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http://askubuntu.com – I asked this on stackoverflow, but maybe here is a better place. On my ubuntu 11.10, /dev/sda3 (150GB) is mounted on / and /dev/sda1 (80GB) is mounted on /home. My entire disk has 250GB and the system is reporting I am running out of disk space. Here is the output of df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 149G 141G 0 100% / udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 860K 1.6G 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 3.9G 508K 3.9G 1% /run/shm /dev/sda1 (HowTos)

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Some days ago I cloned my /dev/sda1 partition with clonezilla in partition-to-partition mode to /dev/sda3. It worked, but now that I've finished the setup of system in /dev/sda3, I wanna reinstall /dev/sda1 for other stuffs. This partition is NOT mounted, but ubuntu's DISK UTILITY thinks it is, while it doesn't see as mounted the currently active / partition /dev/sda3.

This is the df- TH output

In the following output of df -h you can see that i have added a new hard drive(/dev/hdd1) and have mounted as /hdd1.

My question is if I start dumping data to /opt will that data be mounted in /hdd1 or /

My goal is to utilise the new hdd1 instead of old disk(/dev/sda3).

How can this be done?

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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 592G 16G 547G 3% / udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 777M 944K 776M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 1.9G 3.8M 1.9G 1% /run/shm

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Hello Every one,

I have received Disk Usage warning mail from WHM.

WHM 11.32.5 (build 13)

/var folder showing 99%

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 9.7G 811M 8.4G 9% / /dev/sda8 996M 65M 880M 7% /tmp /dev/sda7 420G 268G 130G 68% /home /dev/sda3 9.7G 7.3G 2.0G 79% /usr /dev/sda2 9.7G 9.1G

Hi,

I am having a Low Disk error, saying my file system is low. I ran a Disk Usage Analazyer on the file system and it has pleaty of space in the primary directories. What is showing up in red is 2 of my three drive I have automatically mounting on boot. The mounted drives are 1 and 2 TB and are formatted to ntfs.

I'm getting a rather odd result from df from one of my disks using mdadm. It's setup as 4 of 2TB disks in raid 10.

# df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 3.6T 40G 3.4T 2% / <------ this one tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm /dev/md0 4.9G 189M 4.4G 5% /boot

The actual disk usage is roughly around 2TB.

I was using these instructions to setup an external hard disk with udf. I have been able to setup a multi-partition system using those instructions, but I seem to have hit a wall, where the partition is reported as full while writing to the disk. Every other tool available to me reports it as free.