Zero bytes on home partition
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Published on 2012-11-07T13:56:22Z
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I decided to replace the hard drive on my machine running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . After using the new hard drive for a few days, I noticed that the new hard drive has bad sectors. So I decided to plug my old hard drive back in.
First, I plugged both hard drives in and copied some data files from the new hard drive to the old one. After unplugging the new hard drive, I booted the computer with the old hard drive, and here I got a surprise: I can see 0 bytes available on my /home
partition!
The df
utility shows that the /home
partition has 0 available bytes. I have tried to move some files. But I still has 0 bytes on /home
! However, GParted correctly shows that the available size is near 2Gb.
UPDATE 1:
To my surprise, System Monitor shows me that approximately 2 Gb are free and 0 bytes are available on the /home
partition. It's slightly shocked me! Are "free" and "available" not the same?
Any help is really appreciated!
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