Re: HDD - full?

[Ivan Glushkov <glushkov@mail.desy.de>]

Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
> > Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> >
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I have an external USB FAT hard drive (mounted om /Data), on which I 
> > > should have ~40GB free space, but I cannot use that since:
> > > 0:55 h1siglushkov /Data % df -h
> > > <snil>
> > > 29G     /Data/.
> > > 29G     Total
> > > 10:55 h1siglushkov /Data % df -h
> > > Filesystem             Size Used  Своб Изп% Монтирана на
> > > /dev/hda5              19G   16G  1,5G  92% /
> > > /dev/hda1              19G  6,7G   12G  37% /win
> > > /dev/hda7              18G   18G  100M 100% /data
> > > /dev/sda1              75G   75G  248M 100% /Data <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > > tmpfs                 251M   16K  251M   1% /dev/shm
> > > tmpfs                  10M  112K  9,9M   2% /dev
> > >
> > > Any idea why I do not see my free space? Btw, it is visible under 
> > > Windowz.
> >
> >
> >
> > Just an idea, but maybe you mounted it readonly. Could you post the 
>
> Event if it would be mounted readonly, that would not cause 40GB to 
> disappear, right?
>
> > output of mount?
>
> 15:19 h1siglushkov ~ % mount -v /Data
> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda1
>        I will try type vfat
> /dev/sda1 on /Data type vfat 
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,gid=1000,umask=002)
> 15:19 h1siglushkov ~ %
>
> > Johannes
Problem solved: Just a simple fsck did it. I still have no idea, what 
was the problem though...

    Cheers,
    Ivan

h1siglushkov/#fsck.vfat -a /dev/sda1
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Differences: (offset:original/backup)
  65:01/00
  Not automatically fixing this.
Free cluster summary wrong (7919 vs. really 1261303)
  Auto-correcting.
Performing changes.
/dev/sda1: 76865 files, 1180230/2441533 clusters
h1siglushkov/#mount /Data
h1siglushkov/#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              19G   16G  1.5G  92% /
/dev/hda1              19G  6.7G   12G  37% /win
/dev/hda7              18G   18G  100M 100% /data
tmpfs                 251M   16K  251M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  10M  112K  9.9M   2% /dev
/dev/sda1              75G   37G   39G  49% /Data
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