Crazy /usr/ full issues

[ntaforge]

Hey everybody

Sorry if this has been posted before. I try to search everywhere before posting!

So I have this issue where my /usr/ partition has been claimed to be full. I have 50G set aside for it!

When I run

sudo du -csh /*

7.9M	/bin
30M	/boot
976K	/dev
30M	/etc
du: cannot access `/home/myname/.gvfs': Permission denied
111G	/home
0	/initrd.img
203M	/lib
12M	/lib32
0	/lib64
16K	/lost+found
4.0K	/media
4.0K	/mnt
109M	/opt
du: cannot access `/proc/2839/task/2839/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/2839/task/2839/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/2839/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/2839/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
0	/proc
176K	/root
13M	/sbin
4.0K	/selinux
4.0K	/srv
0	/sys
84K	/tmp
46G	/usr
1.1G	/var
0	/vmlinuz
158G	total

Which that 46G cannot be true!

So then I ran

sudo du -csh /usr/*

224M	/usr/bin
36K	/usr/games
18M	/usr/include
1.7G	/usr/lib
340M	/usr/lib32
0	/usr/lib64
140K	/usr/local
16K	/usr/lost+found
33M	/usr/sbin
1.5G	/usr/share
105M	/usr/src
3.8G	total

Has anyone ever seen this?

Please help!
Thanks

[1clue]

Do you have any invisible files in your /usr directory?

ls -alh /usr

[ntaforge]

Right so somehow most of my home directory was copied into a hidden folder.

Don't know about that but ok!

Thanks for your help 1clue!

[1clue]

Did you use lvm2 on your installation?

If you're going to use multiple partitions it makes sense to make them easily resizable.

I don't know how Ubuntu currently does it because I haven't let any distro handle my formatting for years.

[dcstar]

Hey everybody

Sorry if this has been posted before. I try to search everywhere before posting!

So I have this issue where my /usr/ partition has been claimed to be full. I have 50G set aside for it!
...........

The /usr folder is a System Folder that you should not ever be touching. There is no need for it to be anywhere near 50GB in a normal system.