Diskspace not cleared after adding/creating /home partition

[johand]

helllo,

Because the / root drive of 12 GB was almost full (400 MB free) ;I started up control center and have selected manage local disks.
There I could create a /home partition free space still availabe on the disk.
I have selected that my /home files should be transferred to the new partition.
Everything worked fine but I don't have any more free space on the / root partition as before,although I have
now a / root and seperate /home partition.

mount gives me this:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

 df -h this :
/dev/sda1              12G   11G  437M  97% /
/dev/sda6              42G  8.6G   34G  21% /home

So I don't understand that I don't have more free space on /dev/sda1 although my /home directory should have been moved to the new /home partition.

Any help is appreciated.

[YouCanToo]

helllo,

Because the / root drive of 12 GB was almost full (400 MB free) ;I started up control center and have selected manage local disks.
There I could create a /home partition free space still availabe on the disk.
I have selected that my /home files should be transferred to the new partition.
Everything worked fine but I don't have any more free space on the / root partition as before,although I have
now a / root and seperate /home partition.

mount gives me this:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

 df -h this :
/dev/sda1              12G   11G  437M  97% /
/dev/sda6              42G  8.6G   34G  21% /home

So I don't understand that I don't have more free space on /dev/sda1 although my /home directory should have been moved to the new /home partition.

Any help is appreciated.

Try running 'du' and see what is using the space.

[AS]

I have selected that my /home files should be transferred to the new partition.

How did you transfer your home files ? using copy or using move ?

There is a chance you copied your files from /home to /newpartition and later you mounted /newpartition under the directory /home,
this way your original home files are still there  (using root partition space), but hidden by the newly mounted partition.

Log in as 'root' and umount /home partition, then look in /home directory ... alternatively boot from a LiveCD and check the content of both partitions from there.

AS