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7.8

/mnt seems to be factoring into the used space of the / partition

Asked by bisonfur37 in Linux Administration

I am running Mandrake 10 (kernel 2.6.3-7mdk) with a 46GB / partition. This machine was given to me as is and has turned out to be/is a real trooper so repartitioning it is almost completely out of the question although I fully understand that having a single partition for the entire system (except for /boot and swap) is not desireable. The problem seems to be that the system is factoring in the /mnt partition when figuring out the disk space usage. Below you will see the output of the 'du' and 'df' commands and while I have read that df has some issues, the system does in fact say that it is running out of space when I create an iso image roughly 4GB in size since mkisofs complains that there no space left on the device. My / partition is really 14GB filled and my /mnt partition has 28GB through mounting of two windows partitions and an external hard drive. Any solutions to this? Is there a way to make it so the system does not count /mnt when figuring out disk space? Any suggestions are very welcome since my backups are failing.

[root@vaio home]# du -h --max-depth=1 /
5.5M /bin
0 /dev
13M /etc
71M /lib
28G /mnt
85M /opt
512 /srv
135K /tmp
0 /sys
2.5G /var
2.7G /usr
6.5M /boot
9.1G /home
515M /proc
6.8M /sbin
15M /root
512 /media
512 /stuff
4.5K /initrd
43G /
[root@vaio root]# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
46G 42G 3.6G 93% /
[root@vaio root]#

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/mnt seems to be factoring into the used space of the / partition

Asked by bisonfur37 in Linux Administration

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