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Re: ghost partition



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On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:41:59AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 11:05:13AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Hi Haines,
> 
> > I had thought that the "sde1" in your ncdu output was some sort of
> > header representing the / device, but having installed ncdu and run
> > it myself I am inclined to agree with Juergen that it is actually a
> > file.
> 
> And so it is. I must have seen /sde1, but it failed to register on my
> octogenarian brain. I moved it into storage and my full disk problem is
> gone. Hard to know what that file is. The file command says it is data.
> It may be an ISO. I'll eventually delete it.

A cheap shot: try to mount it. Either as loopback:

  mount -o loop /sde1 /mnt

or by dd'ing it first to a suitable storage (e.g. a stick).

If that suceeds, then it is a file system image *and* you can nose
around in the mount directory (/mnt in the above example) to refresh
your memory.

Of course you gotta do that as root, either by sudo magic or whatever.

> Thanks for the help, but should have discovered the source of the
> problem on my own.

Nobody's an island.

regards
- -- t
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