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<blockquote cite="mid44E2726D.1040705@gmail.com" type="cite"># Info:<br>
# drive capacity: 160 G<br>
# EXTFS Linux partition capacity: 40 G<br>
# problem: 6 gigs data used != 7 Gig free<br>
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Brian, you may have said already, but i'm curious which distro are you
using? I have suse 10.1, and i also have a "/media" directory, which
is NOT the full hard drive.<br>
<br>
You say you have only 6 gigs of disk space in use, but according to `du
-h...` the <u>/media/For_Linux</u> directory is consuming 11 gigs<br>
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try this command as root (or use sudo)<br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">$ du -h / > du.txt<br>
</font><br>
That will create a text file containing the information from du
command. should not see much happen, but once you get your command
line back it is done. you can then use the following command to view
the du output:<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace"><br>
$ less du.txt<br>
</font>navigating with the less command: <enter> scroll down
one
line, <space> down one page, <b> back one page, <G>
go to the bottom of the file, <q> quit<br>
<br>
Jeff<br>
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A quick answer-Ubuntu. I am authoring DVD's so between the time I wrote
6GB I had added the other 5GB in video files. What is the purpose of
the command that I don't get from $ du -h?<br>
And Sam, I ran kdirstat which gives the same data as I posted plus a
very bloby but colorful graphic. Result is the same, 11 GB used and
now, after more dvdauthoring the drive is full! Here's the
screenshot. It seems that each new dvd authoring is adding
something that makes the partition smaller? <br>
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"du -h /" should show you the disk usage of directories and files
across your whole linux drive, not just the "media/For_Linux"
directory, assuming you will be logged on to linux when you type the
command. When you use "du -h", I don't know what location it is
looking at, du -h / tells it to look at the root directory, which is
the upper most directory where everything is stored.<br>
<br>
The list will probably be pretty lengthy, and you will probably lose
results as the long list scrolls in the terminal window, that is why i
suggested to type "> du.txt" which will create a text file with the
output rather than scrolling it across your screen. After that is said
and done, you can open "du.txt" in any text editor or from the command
line using "more" or "less" or "vi" or... and easily delete the lines
of info that are insignificant, to help sort through what is using up
your disk space.<br>
<br>
Jeff<br>
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