750Gig HDD, Only have 1.5-2gig space free

[JonathanA]

Hello all,

I recently did a fresh install of FC12. When installing, I selected the option to completely format the HDD and use entire disk space. Apparently I was so excited everything worked perfect (upgraded from Fc10), until I started to copy videos and it said there isn't enough disk space.

So I downloaded gparted and here's what it shows..

/dev/sbd (698.64 GiB)

/dev/sdb1 - (File system) ext4 - (Mount point) /boot - (size) 200.00MiB - (used) 43.50MiB -(unused) 156.50MiB - (Flags) boot

/dev/sdb2 - (File system) lvm2 - (Mount point) none - (size) 698.44GiB - used and unsed are none - (Flags) lvm

How can I correct this problem? Thanks!

P.S. when running command df -h, here's the reply

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_jaber-lv_root
302G 283G 3.0G 99% /
tmpfs 502M 664K 501M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 194M 38M 147M 21% /boot
/dev/sdd1 1.9G 9.1M 1.9G 1% /media/TOSHIBA2G04
/dev/sdh1 4.0G 3.5G 468M 89% /media/FD70-D771
/dev/sda1 294G 4.0G 275G 2% /media/Storage

[JonathanA]

BUMP, anyone?

[scottro]

Please look at the forum Posting Rules. Don't bump before 24 hours have passed, and in the interim, hopefully, you will have done more research that you will mention.

The chances are that the problem is in your /home directory. Try

cd
du -sh |grep G

This will show anything that's one Gig or larger. (It will also show anything with a G in its title, such as Great_Songs or anything like that.).

That should help you figure out what the problem is.

Edit: The link to the forum Posting Rules is at the top of every page.

[TheHammer]

It looks like your drive is indeed full. Look at the first line of the df command

/dev/mapper/vg_jaber-lv_root 302G 283G 3.0G 99% /

The problem is this volume is only 302G, you have some 300+G of space not allocated to your logical volume. You probably need to expand this volume using lvm to the full 698GiB. There should be some type of graphical lvm manager for FC12 to do this or you could use command line. See LVM HOWTO for help. Hopefully this helps, I avoid using LVM and so am somewhat inexperienced with it.

Hello,
You might want to try and see if you get a output from this.
The following command will discover and print any files on local partitions which do not belong to a valid
user and a valid group. Run it once for each local partition PART:

      # find PART -xdev \( -nouser -o -nogroup \) -print

If this command prints any results, investigate each reported file and either assign it to an appropriate user
and group or remove it.

[JonathanA]

Thanks all for the help, I will try this when I get back home tomorrow and report back