Ubuntu, SAMBA and Disk Space...

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Let me start by apologizing if this is in the wrong section, and by pointing out I am NOT the one doing the install I am just the problem solver.

My co-worker installed Ubuntu on a 250G HDD, fresh. He then installed SAMBA and set the computer up to act as a server. After some minor tweaks on his part and some minor tweaks on my part everything works wonderful. The users and groups are found, all the computers talk to each other and can see each other (as far as I am aware), however we are having a problem with disk space.

We tried to move a folder over from a Windows machine to the server and got the disk full warning, operation aborted.

When we checked the Ubuntu disk it was reporting / was 15.5 gig and full to the brim. The other 230+ gigs are no where to be seen.

What can I do to get the server and everything to recognize the full disk as free space?

When going through filesystem it reads all 250 gig, but when actually using it I only get the 15.5.

Ideas?

Thanks!

[cdenley]

Post this output

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b916c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 578 4642753+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 579 30401 239553247+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29165 30401 9936171 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 579 28000 220267152 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 28001 29164 9349798+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order



Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 209G 13G 186G 7% /
varrun 1.7G 244K 1.7G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.7G 56K 1.7G 1% /dev
devshm 1.7G 24K 1.7G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.7G 39M 1.7G 3% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 209G 13G 186G 7% /root/.gvfs


Thanks!

[cdenley]

That all looks correct to me. Your / filesystem is certainly not full.

When we checked the Ubuntu disk it was reporting / was 15.5 gig and full to the brim. The other 230+ gigs are no where to be seen.

How did you do this?

We tried to move a folder over from a Windows machine to the server and got the disk full warning, operation aborted.

Is the share mapped to a network drive on the windows computer? I don't think windows is aware of disk usage for network shares unless they are mapped. Did you try a linux client?

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We saw the 15.5 full using disk analyzer. And the shared drive is not mapped.

Oh, and there are no Linux clients around. Just the one acting as the server all the others are WinNT based.

[cdenley]

We saw the 15.5 full using disk analyzer. And the shared drive is not mapped.

Oh, and there are no Linux clients around. Just the one acting as the server all the others are WinNT based.

disk analyzer? I'm not familiar with that application, but I believe it is wrong, or you are interpreting it wrong.

Did you try mapping it? I've seen windows programs that refuse to write to a share that wasn't mapped because it thought the disk was full. This is a windows/client problem, and there is nothing you can do on the server to fix it.

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Okay I will try that. Thanks!