Home partition: reducing itself?

[morefeo]

On Lucid I made a separate partition for /home, which was of 10gb.

Then I installed Maverik few days after the release and now, if I check the /home partition properties it says: "4.3gb used, 2.6gb free space". So my question is: where did 3gb go?

Checked as root seems that lost+found folder is empty, I cannot find any file larger than normal...I just don't know where the space went.

Gparted shows 6.2gb is used and 3.11 is free space, 3gb are there, but Ubuntu doesn't show them.

Thanks for the help, if any.

[oldfred]

When you reinstalled did you use the lucid home? Perhaps a new one was created.

Just to confirm:


sudo fdisk -l
df

[morefeo]

Yep.


/dev/sda5 60315 60802 3906560 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 57843 60315 19859456 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 56627 57843 9764864 83 Linux

/dev/sda6 19547420 6229160 12325288 34% /
none 1951684 296 1951388 1% /dev
none 1958460 1160 1957300 1% /dev/shm
none 1958460 212 1958248 1% /var/run
none 1958460 0 1958460 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda7 9611492 6358608 2764644 70% /home

[oldfred]

df seems to agree with gparted. And looks correct.

I have not tried it as my /home is inside root but did you turn on show hidden files before checking properties? Maybe it only counts what it sees.

[morefeo]

Event with it checked, shows wrong data :/

Maybe copy/format/paste from live cd would work?

[asmoore82]

By default linux filesystems have reserved blocks to guarantee
system stability even when the disk becomes full. This is usually
totally unnecessary on a dedicated /home partition.

The command to tweak this setting on ext2/ext3/ext4 is `tune2fs`

man tune2fs

You'll be looking to run something similar to:

sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda7

[morefeo]

sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda7

Now 4.3 used, 3.1 free. Still missing 3gb.

[asmoore82]

Oh I see, you're not missing Free Space, you are missing used space.

I'm the same way - nautilus's calculation is way off.

du is right on though:
sudo du -sh /home

[morefeo]

Output:


user@host:~$ sudo du -sh /home
du: no se puede acceder a «/home/user/.gvfs»: Permiso denegado
5,9G /home


It's spanish, sorry for my english but it says something like...
"du: cannot access «/home/user/.gvfs»: Permission denied."

5,9 looks more realistic but it still miss 1gb, and nautilus is still showing 4,3gb (If you ask, I restarted nautilus by "killall nautilus").

The folder which root user has no access (.gvfs) is empty, and I cannot change its permissions through nautilus.