JimJensen Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I am running Ubuntu 12.04, I have a 1TB drive with 80 gigabytes partitioned for the operation system. I don't store anything else on this partiton,the rest of the job is for storage. Tonight I started getting popups telling me I am running out of space. I looked at the drive with several different tools and they all show different results. If anyone can tell me how to fix the issue other that reformatting and reinstalling I would appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Have you installed any apps, moved any data or installed any updates lately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimJensen Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 I install the update as they are offered so if I didn't get any today I am sure I did yesterday. As for today the only thing I have done hard drive related was I used Gparted to partition and format a flash drive to make a multipass drive. I don't see how that would have anything to do with the root drive. Unless I really messed up somehow. Did you notice in the properties picture it reads the drive is 140.t terabytes? Something isn't being reported right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Are you able to post the results for this? sudo fdisk -l[/CODE] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimJensen Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 5 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x68017a43 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 159999999 79998976 83 Linux /dev/sda2 160002046 225279999 32638977 5 Extended /dev/sda3 225280000 1953519615 864119808 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda5 160002048 225279999 32638976 82 Linux swap / Solaris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Found something that might be shed some light into your problem. http://superuser.com/questions/190627/ubuntu-10-04-recurring-low-disk-space-issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimJensen Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 I powered of the computer in lieu of a restart and the problem seem to have corrected itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 That's strange may be a bug in the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Or a bad HDD reporting errors. I would run a fsck and if dual booting windows also a chkdsk on the NTFS partition. somthing sounds like hte partition is corrupt or bad disk sectors, and rebooting, it might have done an fsck on boot and fixed itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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