Where are files stored

[roymcd]

Hey , this should be an easy question. I have Red Hat 5 runnin on VMWare. I gave the VMware 50GB of space and I can see that it is there. . .


[root localhost ~] df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.8G 2.3G 1.4G 62% /
/dev/sda3 40G 177M 38G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 46M 11M 33M 25% /boot
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc 48M 48M 0 100% /media/RHEL_5.6 i386 DVD




... The problem I have is when i add stuff to the /home directroy the / directory fills up. this mean I can only add 2.3G of files to my system. Why does this happen and how can I use the 40G that is part of sda3's /home directroy.


CHeers

[HROAdmin26]

Hmm....

If you're copying data and / is growing (while /home is not), then the data isn't going into /home.

cd /home
df -ah
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 of=1GB.file
df -ah

Did /home grow by 1GB?

[roymcd]

I was able to add a 1GB file to home using your command but I still have the same problem. . . maybe it is how I am copying them over. As this is a VM ware I am just dragging and dropping to from my windwos box to the /home folder. Should i copy them to / or root first and then using command line cp them to the Home directory?


....I also have a new problem. When i tested again just now I moved the files to the /home dir and then say that / was filling up. I then deleted them from the folder and cleaned out my recycle bin but i still show that my "/" is full. How can i get Reh hat check for free space, have already did a restart...

[root@localhost ~]
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             3.8G  3.8G     0 100% //dev/sda3              40G  177M   38G   1% /home
/dev/sda1              46M   11M   33M  25% /boot
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc               48M   48M     0 100% /media/New
[root@localhost ~]#

looking at the properties of the "home" folder i see that its location is "/" and its Volume is /home.




*Thanks for this help BTW

[roymcd]

Ok, found out what was going on here. When you copy files from VWware it stores them in the /tmp directory. It must them leave a shortcut to them in the folder you pick and that is what i was seeing.

I copies the files from /tmp (which is part of "/") to home and now all is good.



Cheers for the help anyway.