[NTLUG:Discuss] Hard Drive Overfilled

[Terry Henderson]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:51:00 -0600, Chuck <cfgraf at swbell.net> wrote:
> I have a mystery and I wonder if anyone can figure this out.  This is on my
> desktop machine with an Athlon 1300, FIC motherboard, two 40  gig IDE hard
> drives, half a gig of memory and an install of Mandrake 10 .  The computer
> has been running and stable for years, with Mandrake 10 installed several
> months ago.  It is a desktop, but has Apache and some other server stuff
> running on it.
> 
> I was trying to set up video capture from my DV camera, and had just got Kino
> to capture the video output.  I found I could control the camera (start and
> stop play) with gscanbus.  This was all new, and it did not work until I
> tried starting both as root.  As root, I could capture video and play it back
> from the hard drive.
> 
> Now the problem.  I did not realize that when I started Kino as root  it was
> not saving the video to my /home/chuck/capture directory, but to the "/root"
> directory, which is on a separate, smaller partition.  Of course "/" filled
> up and everything got slow, things would not work,and the hard drive light
> glowed steady constantly.  I moved the files from "/" to the /home directory.
> The relevent partitions are now as follows:
> 
> [root at localhost chuck]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
>                       5.8G  4.3G  1.2G  79% /
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
>                        13G  5.2G  7.3G  42% /home
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
>                        13G   11G  1.6G  87% /home/chuck/Media
> 

What are you doing with the rest of those drives?  
If they are both 40 gig drives, we see that there's about 21g
unaccounted for on the first drive and 27g unaccounted for on the
second drive.  I know it's not all that important, but just curious.
Is it unformatted and you're just saving for further use?  
Or is it MSDOS and you left out the information just for simplicity sake?

> Before I moved the files part 7, mounted on "/", was showing all 5.8 gig used
> and 0 available.
> 
> OK, now the mystery.  The hard drive light stays on all the time.  Never so
> much as a flicker from the time I turn the machine on until I turn it off.
> The disks are hot but not extremely so.  They feel like they are running
> constantly.  GKrellm does not show any unusual disk activity.
> 
> I have no idea if the following is relevent.  Looking at dmesg I found this,
> but the warnings refer to the drive that did not fill up (hdb), not the one
> that did (hda):
> 
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> EXT2-fs warning (device hdb1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
> ext2
> EXT2-fs warning (device hdb2): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
> ext2
> EXT2-fs warning (device hdb3): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
> ext2
> 
> The machine seems to be a bit slower, and it takes about twice as long to boot
> up as it used to.  There is definitely something wrong.  The question is,
> what is wrong and how do I fix it?
> --
> Chuck

Not sure what to make of this either, but  you might also show us your
fstab file.