After a fresh install my /root partition says full... but 28.4GB is free

[green112]

Hey guys, I'm new to the forum. Been reading for a while. Been triple booting fedora 15, win 7 and ubuntu 11.04 previously but after a lot of problems I decided to wipe my drive, re-partition and start fresh. Thanks in advance for any help.

First os i installed on the fresh new partitions was fedora 15. A 200mb ext2 boot primary partition and and an extended partition with 30gb root ext4, 5gb /tmp and 10gb /home partition for fedora. After a great install (always is with fedora, headache always with ubuntu) my root folder says its full, 100% usage. Yum will not update because it says it's full. Disk usage analyzer says my root partition capacity is 33.4GB, currently 5.GB used, 28.4GB free but also that usage is 100%. 28.4GB free but usage is 100%.
Below it, it says total file system usage 5GB 14.9%. Nothing else.
Anyone know what could be the problem?

If it's any help, I was getting weird I/O errors on windows when trying to download with QBittorrent and Unbuntu would not install after 3 days of trying with very little sleep with I/O errors as well. So I decided to wipe and reformat. After reformat i tried installing Ubuntu again but continued to get I/O errors. So after another reformat I installed fedora 15 and that's where I am now.

I'm worried this could be a hard drive failure. I'll appreciate any help. Thanks.

[sea]

According to the numbers you mentioned, your full hd offers you like 30 to 40gb space totaly?
This said, i'd try it with such a hd layout:
/boot: 500mb
/swap: 5'000mb
---------------------
/root: 15'000mb
/home: 15'000mb
If you still have free disk space i'd spare them equaly on /root and /home.

However, if you have more harddisk space, i'd set /root to maximal 50gb, and spend the rest (30gb+) to /home.
If you have less disk space, i'd give root more space (20) and the rest (~10) to home, and install as less software as required, to get a 'starting point'.

EDIT:
Before re-installing f15, try running fsck on unmounted drives.

[michaaa62]

To analyze please post the output of

mount
df
du -kx --max-depth=1 / | sort -nr

Please copy and paste for better and exact readability.

[sea]

Dont forget to CODE /CODE copy-pasted parts, for best readability.