[NTLUG:Discuss] Hard Drive Overfilled

[Chuck]

>> Now the problem.  I did not realize that when I started Kino as root  it as
>> 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/ChuckStuff
>> 

>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?

You are right, I left out the rest of the partitions because I did not think 
they would matter.  The whole result of   df -h is:

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  7.2G  5.3G  58% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
                       13G   11G  1.6G  87% /home/chuck/ChuckStuff
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
                       13G   11G  1.7G  87% /home/chuck/Media
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3
                       13G   11G  1.5G  88% /home/wildman/Media
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
                      2.0G  1.9G  148M  93% /mnt/win_c
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
                      2.0G  1.6G  464M  78% /mnt/win_d
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
                       15G  8.9G  5.5G  62% /mnt/win_e


As you can see there is a windows install on the drive.  It has not been 
booted in over a year.  The rest is mostly just stored crap.
 
>> 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.

Ok, here is the fstab file:

/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /home/chuck/ChuckStuff ext2 defaults,user 0 1
/dev/hdb2 /home/chuck/Media ext2 defaults,user 0 1
/dev/hdb3 /home/wildman/Media ext2 defaults,user 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Removable auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/Removable2 auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto 
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount 
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 
0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0

The light is still glowing.  I am worried about wearing one of the diusks out.  
Any ideas?

-- 
Chuck