My office system's HDD capacity was 500 GB, but the usable space was only around 100 GB. When I analysed disk I found that some of the space was used by boot
and swap
and the rest was used by an empty folder named NewFolder
under the root directory. This folder was found to contain around 350 GB and was unusable(no read/write permission) for the user.
When I investigated more, It was found that the ownership of that folder was neither root nor user (May be system admins did it by mistake during installation). So I changed the ownership to my user. And now I am able to access the entire space.
My question is, is it possible for me to mount this partition to my home
directory? If possible how? If not possible, why?
Edit
Output of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 92G 84G 3.8G 96% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 786M 1.4M 785M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 17M 3.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 76K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda6 922M 292M 567M 35% /boot
/dev/sda7 359G 67M 341G 1% /NewFolder
output of cat /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=aede36a3-fb06-4fe0-969d-011f063ba568 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /NewFolder was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=efd23971-f61a-41f3-bd28-bbdf76c74673 /NewFolder ext4 defaults 0 2
# /boot was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=d93f32a4-f5a2-4f3c-a243-6d20bad200ce /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4ee0e7f2-03fa-489a-93bc-4152c69a1c26 none swap sw 0 0
df -h
cat /etc/fstab
?df -h
. NewFolder is a mount of/dev/sda7
(a partition of 359GB)