[LUNI] newbie question on disk quotas for ubuntu

Keith T. Garner kgarner at kgarner.com
Tue Oct 31 11:09:41 CST 2006


sqrfolkdnc at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm trying to convert from an evil empire OS to linux (Ubuntu 6.06).
> 
> Copying stuff over, and I got disk full.  df -k says there is plenty of room:
> cts at ubuntu:~$ df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             18642960   3597936  14097996  21% /
> varrun                  306716        80    306636   1% /var/run
> varlock                 306716         4    306712   1% /var/lock
> udev                    306716       144    306572   1% /dev
> devshm                  306716         0    306716   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                     306716     18856    287860   7% /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/volatile
> 

Without quote installed, you might not be running into a quota issue.  It
looks like you have lots of disk space free...but did you use all your inodes?
 What does df -i say?

Keith

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 Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
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