2015-06-30

I have an encrypted installation with separate home partition and recently started seeing notifications of running low on disk space on my home folder. I thought it was weird because I know I haven't used all the space available. I ran df -h in my terminal and my home partition shows only 8% space used.

root@ez:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 9.1G 9.1G 0 100% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 789M 540K 789M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/ez-root 9.1G 9.1G 0 100% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda2 229M 29M 189M 14% /boot
/dev/sda1 487M 128K 486M 1% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/ez-home 204G 15G 179G 8% /home
tmpfs 2.9G 16K 2.9G 1% /tmp

I read this thread which suggested to run df -h ~/ to see where /home was mounted (which gives /dev/mapper/ez-root, rather than /dev/mapper/ez-home), but the thread doesn't say anything about how to go about fixing the issue. If this is in fact where the problem is, how would I go about fixing it without breaking anything regarding the encryption?

I can provide any other needed information.

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