[Solved] home partition shown as full, but is not!

[Chopstick]

Re: home partition shown as full, but is not!

So I checked the trash folders and they are all empty. (I also checks hidden files with ls -a)

I tried fsck at boot again (from recovery mode), and again I get the same warning: /dev/sda6 is already mounted. How can I unmount and check that partition, as it appears to be at the heart of the problem?

[dibl]

Re: home partition shown as full, but is not!

@ Josefko: kdesudo dolphin causes the following error: cannot talk to klauncher.

Try Alt-F2 "dbus-launch kdesudo dolphin" with no quote marks.

[Chopstick]

Re: home partition shown as full, but is not!

Try Alt-F2 "dbus-launch kdesudo dolphin" with no quote marks.

Still does not work; the precise wording is:
"Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: The same org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files"
And the dolphin window is empty.

However in the meantime I followed the many suggestions on checking my disk usage in my home directory and I found a mysterious folder called "Downloads" (in my actual Downloads-folder) which had 16.8GB of junk. Upon inspection it's name turned into "."
Anyway I could simply delete this folder and the disk space was recovered. Now at least my system is working properly.

I suspect that this folder was created by my dc++ client. It looks like it downloaded someones entire home-folder (I don't remember doing that... not intentionally anyway). It may be possible that dc++ simply filled up every bit as soon as it became available, and only stopped when it was killed due to a reboot.

I'm still confused about the 4GB which seemed to have disappeared. So I would like to run fsck on my home partition, if anyone could help me with that...

[eddieg780]

Re: home partition shown as full, but is not!

Use your live cd to perform the fsck. If it's the 9.04 you can choose to check the drive from the menu.

[josefko]

Re: home partition shown as full, but is not!

I would try fsck for /home from live CD

Use your live cd to perform the fsck

I tried in the meantime to find something on Internet, there is a lot of advices there, try google "unmount home" for example, but I still think to use live CD is the fastest and safest way to do it and simple too.

[Chopstick]

Re: home partition shown as full, but is not!

OK, I did the file-system check and repair with life-CD. There was nothing major.
I think the problem was caused by this dc++ client going wild and continuously filling up any newly available space.
Does that sound reasonable?

Taking into account the 5% reserved for root (thanks russlar!! I did not know that) the available space is now consistent with the size of my home directory.

Is it normal that home is mounted on boot and not included in a standard file system check?
And I still have the error with kdesudo dolphin, but that's a different problem I guess.

So I will mark this thread as solved. Thank you all for your help!