Ron Johnson wrote:
Thanks for that info Ron. When I run df -H the totals tally as expected! Thanks - I was getting a tad paranoid there!!-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/08 09:08, andy wrote:Gabriel Parrondo wrote:El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 07:16 +0100, andy escribió:<snip>[snip]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.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. [...]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. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" |