[ydl-gen] Free space is missing (du, df and HFS plus file system)

[Mark Guertin]

Have you run any hfs+ repair tools on this partition lately?  Sounds  
like it might help (just a shot in the dark).

Mark

On 26-Jan-06, at 10:19 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Thanks for the hint but no such easy luck.
>
> pdisk shows all the right partition sizes. What's confusing about this
> is that du -h and df -h were showing the correct sizes a few weeks ago
> (this is a server box). Now it's df -h that's off (and, presumably
> nautilus uses df -h because nautilus too reports virtually no free
> space).
>
> Eric.
>
> On 1/26/06, rev rob <houseofshame at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know this may sound silly but, what are the other partitions of the
>> drive. Could the missing space be there?
>>  Need to know?
>> as root try pdisk
>>  "pdisk  /dev/hdc"
>> then
>> "pdisk -l"
>> This should show you what partitions are on the drive as well as the
>> size of each.
>>  I just learned a little bit of "pdisk". So this is why I ask.
>>   Hope this helps a lil bit, as it were.
>>
>>
>> On 1/26/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello, I've got a bit of an odd situation.
>>>
>>> I have an HFS plus partition that I mount and use in Linux. I have a
>>> symlink to a directory in /mnt/macosx which appears in a Linux smb
>>> share that I mount in OS X. I'm missing about 5G of space  
>>> according to
>>> various Linux utilities:
>>>
>>> df -h reports...
>>>
>>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/hdc8             7.7G  5.9G  1.5G  80% /
>>> none                  125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
>>> /dev/hdc10             35G   28G  5.8G  83% /home
>>> /dev/hdc7              25G   24G  1.7G  94% /mnt/macosx
>>>
>>> du -h --max-depth=1 from /mnt gives...
>>> /mnt/macosx is 19G
>>>
>>> So, what's going on? I only just noticed it when I deleted a  
>>> directory
>>> that contained about 4.3 GB of files this afternoon. When I  
>>> checked df
>>> -h I only had 2.3 G free (when I had just deleted 4.3 GB from the
>>> directory, symlinked to a smb share, mounted in the OS X 10.4.4
>>> Finder).
>>>
>>> Any guesses as to what's going on? Or ways to get Linux to agree on
>>> the amount of space that's free?
>>>
>>> PS Yes, I realise I probably shouldn't be playing with HFS plus and
>>> smb and Mac OS X Finder.
>>>
>>> Eric.
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