I have an ASUS laptop which I am trying to re-purpose as a Linux machine, to which I purchased a new 750GB hard drive. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and followed general guidelines for creating different drive partitions, actually allowing for slightly more space than suggested since the hard drive is pretty large.
I also encrypted my home directory during install (not sure if this is what is causing the problem I'm about to describe).
Tonight I'm trying to get a few programs setup on here that I use regularly such as Spotify and Dropbox. I was able to install both of these, however Dropbox seems to think I am out of diskspace (claims I only have 500MB left or some nonsense). I am confused as to why. It is located in my /home/mydirectory which I (believe) is setup with the largest partition, close to 700GB. Even if I wanted to sync everything I have in my DB, that is still only 30GB, so clearly I have plenty of space.
When I "examined disks" to see where the problem was, I noticed that a seemingly large portion of that disk is being used (reserved?) by my private (encrypted) directory. Is it possible to move DB to this directory? How do I place things in there in the first place?
I encrypted it for safety/security reasons originally, but now I am questioning if it was worth it. I wasn't given any options from DB when I installed it, but I know I can "move" the directory. Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
Edit 05-16-15
At your suggestion, I found out the following information:
user@Asus:~$ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda9 17G 15G 658M 96% / none 4.1k 0 4.1k 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 4.1G 4.1k 4.1G 1% /dev tmpfs 814M 1.3M 813M 1% /run none 5.3M 0 5.3M 0% /run/lock none 4.1G 6.6M 4.1G 1% /run/shm none 105M 41k 105M 1% /run/user /home/user/.Private 17G 15G 658M 96% /home/greywolf user@Asus:~$
Looking at this, I see why it thinks I am running out of space. However, this is still perplexing to me as I have a 700+GB volume that is not listed here at all. What is more odd is that prior to opening this message to edit, I saw it mounted (even pulled up the properties) - now it is gone. When I was trying to install on here, I thought I had saved the largest volume for /home. I have not gotten very far in this process that I couldn't just start over. If you had a 750GB hard drive to install Ubuntu on, what partitions would you create during the start up process and in what capacities? That may be what I need to try again. (I didn't have this problem the last time so not sure why I'm having it now)
gparted gave me the following:
user@Asus:~$ sudo gparted ====================== libparted : 2.3 ====================== (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 7 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 6 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 26 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 25 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 33 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 32 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 36 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 35 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 39 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 38 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 42 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 41 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 45 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 44 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 48 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 47 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 51 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 50 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 54 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 53 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 57 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 56 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 60 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 59 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 65 was not found when attempting to remove it (gpartedbin:4874): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 64 was not found when attempting to remove it
It appears to still be running. It also brought up the gparted gui, which I took a screen shot of but I am uncertain how to post that in here.
Results from Mount:
user@Asus:~$ mount /dev/sda9 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) /home/user/.Private on /home/user type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_check_dev_ruid,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs,ecryptfs_sig=9c8812d31a548113,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=7e7a38601164a67f) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=user) /dev/sda5 on /media/user/2a556b61-ee1f-4f45-a618-a811d40e6f48 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) /dev/sda8 on /media/user/17eec742-26fd-40ff-a1d8-2730c7aea46e type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) /dev/sda7 on /media/user/b8c70277-bf06-410f-91ac-ce5d54ed208c type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) user@Asus:~$
I am 99% certain that sda8 is the large partition.
Here is the content of the fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # # / was on /dev/sda9 during installation UUID=b187f237-9f0d-4644-b6eb-880a2c131f7e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda10 during installation #UUID=b7b9eb33-8e0a-4f48-9196-e582abe50b10 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
After following some of the suggestions (below) df -h now shows this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda9 16G 15G 336M 98% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 3.8G 12K 3.8G 1% /dev tmpfs 777M 1.2M 776M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 3.8G 3.8M 3.8G 1% /run/shm none 100M 48K 100M 1% /run/user /home/user/.Private 16G 15G 336M 98% /home/user /dev/sda5 687M 44M 594M 7% /media/user/2a556b61-ee1f-4f45-a618-a811d40e6f48 /dev/sda8 650G 70M 617G 1% /media/user/17eec742-26fd-40ff-a1d8-2730c7aea46e /dev/sda7 6.8G 16M 6.4G 1% /media/user/b8c70277-bf06-410f-91ac-ce5d54ed208c
As you can see, /sda8 is the large partition. I honestly thought I had made that the /home partition but clearly it isn't, which is causing all kinds of issues.
df -Hand edit your question with the output. that will give us a bit of an idea of what we're dealing with here