Re: Disk space usage

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Diogene Laerce a écrit :
>>
>>   mount --bind / /mnt
>>   du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1
[...]
> After narrowing on /mnt, I found that the 55G comes from
> /mnt/media/backup/backup.
> 
> As I couldn't find which files or directories are involved in that
> directory, I umount /mnt, deleted it all (rm -R /media/backup/backup)
> and restarted the system.

You just deleted everything in the /backup directory of /dev/sdc1
mounted on /media/backup. I hope you had another backup or it did not
contain anything important.

> Then I mounted again the / to find out that under /mnt, the
> /mnt/media/backup/backup still exists and everything in it too ???

Of course. You deleted files in /dev/sdc1, not in the root partition.

> With the same result on the "du" command of course.
> 
> It started to be kind of foggy around here.. ^^
> 
> I then : rm -R /mnt/media/backup/backup and get my whole space again. :)

This time you deleted files in the root partition mounted on /mnt.

>> And what is the meaning of "Go"?
> 
> French for G

No. G is the SI prefix for giga, and is the same in any language.