Help - Where's all my space gone?

[Mr Blek]

I'm running SUSE. Today I ran out of disk space on a 150gig hd. I don't have much on the drive so I did the following commands as root:



du -s -h
titan:/ # du -s -h
du: cannot access `./backups/Thursday.sql.gz': Permission denied
du: cannot access `./backups/Friday.sql': Permission denied
3.0G


I tried to delete the above to files as root but it wouldn't let. ls gave a permission denied.

and


titan:/ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 148G 123G 25G 84% /
udev 499M 112K 499M 1% /dev



du = 3.0G
df = 123G

Surely something is wrong there? I thought a fsck was in order, so i executed the command


titan:/ # fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable /dev/hda2

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
###########
reiserfsck --fix-fixable started at Fri Feb 1 16:43:14 2008
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Partition /dev/hda2 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it
titan:/ #



How do I go about fixing the problem? / is mounted as /dev/hda2 so I can't see how I can unmount the whole filesystem. Is there another way to do fix the inconsistency? I've tried setting the flag in /etc/fstab but that hasn't worked.

[thecaoticone]

If you have a live cd ( like Gentoo ) you can boot from it and try to run the fsck.reiserfs commands.
I recently had to do this with my personal pc after a power supply failure.

[Mr Blek]

If you have a live cd ( like Gentoo ) you can boot from it and try to run the fsck.reiserfs commands.
I recently had to do this with my personal pc after a power supply failure.


Thanks that worked. This was on a root server so I had to boot into the provided rescue system run fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree

Took absolutely ages (best part of 8 hours) but everything is back to normal.