Re: 97% use of / system
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On 05/23/08 09:08, andy wrote:
> Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
>> El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 07:16 +0100, andy escribió:
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>>> As an aside, I seem to be missing approx 18GB of HD space - this is a
>>> 200GB HD, but adding the values given above totals 182GB. Strange, and I
>>> cannot track it down anywhere, and I don't dual-boot, so unless 200GB
>>> was listed on the packaging as an approximation, almost 20GB have gone AWOL.
>>>
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>> Run 'parted /dev/yourdisk' and in parted's prompt enter 'print'.
>> It will tell you where each partition begins and ends. There might be
>> empty (unpartitioned) space between partitions or at the end/beginning
>> of disk.
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> Cheers for that.
> Nope - parted shows that all drive space is present and accounted for.
> But, there still seems to be a missing 18GB of HD when I run df -h .
Remember that, by default, df prints binary values, but hard drives
are measured in decimal. So try "df -H".
Lastly, remember that df sees blocks, but du sees *files*. So,
where du sees 3 files that are each 1KiB, fir a total of 3KiB, df
sees them as each using 1 4KiB block, for a total of 12KiB.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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