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
If you deleted it from your Desktop manager then could had gone to some `/.hided' directory like `/media/sda1/.Trash' and that's what could be taking space... Regards, Jose Luis. -- ghostbar on debian linux 'sid' 2.6.22 x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://linuxtachira.org http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve Fingerprint = 3E7D 4267 AFD5 2407 2A37 20AC 38A0 AD5B CACA B118
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