Just posted a thread in the Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6354500#post6354500

OK so last night I was doing an rsync backup, as you do on a Thursday evening, and rsync stalled saying something about not enough memory…

So I had a look at my filesystems (/ partition for OS; and /home partition for my stuff) and it says that /dev/sda1 is 100% full.

result is machine is grinding to a halt, and apps are shutting down…

df command in terminal says the same thing.

however, when i use “Properties” (right click on directory names) it shows the whole of / as only 5.2GB, on a 14.4 partition…

touch /forcefsk => doesn’t seem to have done anything:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-775653.html

i don’t seem to have any masive log files:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=866445

googling for “/dev/sda1 full” doesn’t seem to yield much

so something is fishy methinks… and I’m wondering if any of the fine people here could help?

Anyone?