Disk Usage

[andres625]

Hello,

I have a virtual machine running Debian. I am trying to download a large file, but I get a full disk error. When I go to the terminal to check things out, here is what I got:

andres:/home# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 259M 258M 0 100% /
tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 68K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9 90G 3.1G 82G 4% /home
/dev/hda8 373M 40M 313M 12% /tmp
/dev/hda5 4.6G 2.7G 1.7G 62% /usr
/dev/hda6 2.8G 685M 2.0G 26% /var

As you can see, I have more than 70 GB ree. I do now know why it is assigning these percentages to each file. I know need more space in the root partition. Is there any way I can change this?

Thanks in advance!

Andres

[jmadero]

Did you manually set up those partitions? That is a very strange setup to say the least. I'm not sure if you can change those partitions since it's a VM....I'm actually pretty sure you can't because you can't run a live distro inside of VM as far as I know. Have you considered dual booting instead of running a VM?

[bigtomrodney]

Where are you downloading the file to? What way did you format that partition? If it is FAT and the file is over 4GB you may get that error as FAT doesn't support files over that size.

On the live distro in a VM topic, you can do that. It's just the same as running it on a physical rig

[andres625]

Hi,

Thank you for your replies. I'm a college student taking a grid computing class. Our teacher gave us the virtual machine were are using for our cluster, so it was her who apparently made that disk arrangement in the first place. I was in /root when I tried to download a 300MB file, and that was when I got the "not enough disk space" error. I'm not sure how to rearrange the disk so I can have a little more room in the root partition. Any ideas?

Thank you!