From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jake Maciejewski Subject: Re: reiserfs using too much space on my HD Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:29:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1130520580.10015.7.camel@gentoo> References: <4360A5A4.6030809@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bedros Hanounik <2bedros@gmail.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" , reiserfs-list@namesys.com p will preserve permissions, but I'd add l to avoid traversing the virtual proc and sys filesystems. You'll also need a minimal set of device nodes. I find it easiest to tar up my current /dev (p is all you need here too) rather than making only the devices needed before udev starts. On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:19 -0700, Bedros Hanounik wrote: > Vlad, > > fsck.reiserfs version is 3.6.19; when I run it, it reports no > corruption errors found at the end; or something like that. > > I'll tar the whole partition to an external drive, then format it and > untar it again. > > Anyone knows if "tar cvjpf file /" is suffecient to keep all > permisions etc. (including for system directories such as /proc /dev) > and restoring exactly as it was before format? > > Thanks, > > -B > > > > On 10/27/05, Bedros Hanounik <2bedros@gmail.com> wrote: > > "du -shx" reports 9.5GB > > I'm running latest from gentoo, so I assume it's 3.6.19. > > I ran fsck.reiserfs from gentoo liveCD 2005.1 and at the end I > got zero errors. > > The problem could be fixed, I could tar the whole root > directory to an external drive, format the partition and then > tar it back. but I'm not sure what's going on? > > I'll post all logs on this list tomorrow. > > -Bedros > > > > On 10/27/05, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello > > Bedros Hanounik wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been using reiserfs for several years now and > it's been choice > > number one for me; I'll probably switch to reiser4 > once it's in the main > > kernel. > > > > on my home file server machine, one hard drive > (120GB) reports 80 GB > > used, but I have no idea how and where it's used. > > > > df -h reports 80GB used > > > > what does du -s / report? > > > but when I run kdirstat, I get about 10GB used for > directory /. > > > > I ran fsck.reiserfs from liveCD and it reported no > errors. > > > > is it reiserfsck 3.6.19? > Please send output of reiserfsck 3.6.19. > > > is there any better way to tell what's eating up my > hard drive? > > > > Regards, > > > > -Bedros > > > > > > > > -- Jake Maciejewski