Thread: /home full but no large files HELP
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2010-03-19 , 13:29
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Originally Posted by thundercat600 View Post
I have an n900 that has no free space in the /home folder yet when I list the contents, there are no large files taking up the 2gb of space. I have run storage util and that doesnt show anything out of the ordinary.
Before thinking of filesystem corruption... a classic feature of Unix filesystems is that the storage space allocated to an unlinked file does not get deallocated before all programs having the file open closes it.

I assume you have rebooted your machine, to see if free space suddenly becomes available?