Re: Mislaid disk space

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.

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