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Re: Mislaid disk space



Ok bizarrely this whole thing has now sorted itself out... this is a
problem from a couple of weeks ago and when I checked just now for the
du -a output it had 17G free space again. How odd. Bloody
computers...!

Anyway thanks for suggestios.


Adam

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On 06/08/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 08/06/07 16:44, Adam Gray wrote:
> > I have a 40Gb external LaCie USB hard drive, which until recently used
> > to contain all my data. I have now bought a 300gb internal drive to
> > move everything onto. But having moved some of the stuff over, for
> > various reasons I have now mucked up my debian install and want to
> > start afresh.
> >
> > But, for some reason when I deleted my iTunes music library off the external
> > drive, it doesn't seem to quite have gone properly... weirdly the
> > drive still shows as full when running `df` but from my windows
> > installation (on a different HD) it shows as having 16G free space...?
> > The iTunes dir is no longer being listed on the drive, but it still
> > seems to be taking up space.
> >
> > Which is inconvenient as I now have a large tar archive of my home
> > directory (containing the music) which I can't back up to reinstall
> > the OS. So any ideas on what's going on here and if/how I can reclaim
> > this free space, preferably without reformatting the drive (it still
> > has quite a bit of important stuff on).
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > P.S. df has this to say:
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hdb1             250M   88M  149M  38% /
> > tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hdb9             220G   29G  181G  14% /home
> > /dev/hdb8             361M   69M  273M  20% /tmp
> > /dev/hdb5             4.6G  2.8G  1.6G  64% /usr
> > /dev/hdb6             2.8G  1.1G  1.6G  40% /var
> > /dev/sda1              38G   36G  1.6G  96% /media/sda1
>
> Which device?
>
> What does "du -a" say?
>
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