[SLUG] Download writing to disc failure

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Alright, so now I want to download RealPlayer for Helix so I can
>> play
>> an MP3. It's 5.7MB and is heading for /home/rpms. The MP3 I
>> downloaded
>> went into /home/work/etc, so it's the same partition. There's a
>> weeny
>> chance I've run out of space, but this is the same behaviour that
>> was
>> happening before.
>
> Don't be offended, but stupid question...
>
> You're not confusing
>
> /home/work
>
> with
>
> /home/John/work
>
> are you?
>
> Steve O

:-) I knew I was being slack when I wrote it.

No, I don't think so. /home/John/rpms is where I intended the Real bin
to go .. there isn't an rpms directory elsewhere so I'm sure that's
right.

The file that did download went to /home/John/work/work/sli/downloads
so that's all within my home directory too (wrong, see below).

df reports:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             487M  412M   51M  90% /
/dev/sda1              99M   34M   60M  37% /boot
/dev/shm             1010M     0 1010M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3             8.1G  4.3G  3.4G  57% /home
/dev/sda8             487M   11M  451M   3% /tmp
/dev/sda5             4.8G  1.9G  2.6G  43% /usr
/dev/sda7             965M  136M  780M  15% /var
/dev/sda9             7.8G  7.4G   37M 100% /home/John/work
/dev/sda10            7.8G  7.4G   55M 100% /home/John/audio
/dev/sda11            7.8G  778M  6.7G  11% /home/John/oldWork

so I've not actually filled my /home/John/work directory yet.

Aha. My assumptions were wrong. /home/John/work is a different
partition to /home which presumably contains /home/John/rpms.

What does that tell us? Clear out my work folder and see if it's a
space issue? It shouldn't be .. 5.7Mb could come down seven times in
the free space that's available. It's not taking ages to write because
of fragmentation is it? The download didn't show 'complete' for
minutes.

I think I forgot to attach the screenshot to my last message:

J
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