Ok bizarrely this whole thing has now sorted itself out... this is a problem from a couple of weeks ago and when I checked just now for the du -a output it had 17G free space again. How odd. Bloody computers...!
Anyway thanks for suggestios. Adam - Hide quoted text - On 06/08/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/06/07 16:44, 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 > > Which device? > > What does "du -a" say? > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. > Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGt6DES9HxQb37XmcRArfhAKDA0rhYuDcmJ5cTVvAuvlW58uNw+QCdF1f6 > D3Bbos2siJrPgsMVLuTKVIA= > =Ixyq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
