root and home are on seperate partitions, but home still uses up space on root?
- by Void
When installing Ubuntu 12.10 for the first time, I made sure /home had it's own partition, gave it about 185GB, and gave root ~10GB.
Now root is almost full after a few days and I've noticed that root is as big as /home and some additional MB from some actual root files.
Note that I deleted some unused files in /home to make sure it really affects how much space is used in root, and it clearly does. (checked in gparted)
I've also made sure the files I am talking about are actually in /home/myname/ and not just in root's home.
df -h spits out this information:
df: `/root/.gvfs': Permission denied
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 9.2G 7.9G 908M 90% /
udev 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 932K 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 6.4M 3.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 112K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sdb3 184G 4.9G 170G 3% /home
/dev/sdb4 729G 87G 642G 12% /media/mave/Storage
I cut out my windows partitions as I don't see any relevance.
I hope this is enough information for someone to tell me what I did wrong
