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

[Eric Dunbar]

OK. Time to do a full back-up (this is mostly junk storage... of
course I also have my galleries on there... good excuse to weed out
the chaff)

Eric

On 1/27/06, Mark Guertin <guertin at brucemaudesign.com> wrote:
> haha, it's not my drive that's missing space so it matters not to
> me .. but if this is the problem it goes downhill from here and not
> always in an orderly fashion.  I have a drive doing a low level
> format on a home server as I type this due to similar problems. :(
>
> And yes, use the mac OS based stuff to fix it up if you chose to go
> this route...
>
> Mark
>
> On 27-Jan-06, at 11:00 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
> > Using HFS+ utilities in Linux? I thought they were out-of-date and
> > deprecated?
> >
> > As for running a Mac OS X/Mac OS 9 utility... that would require me to
> > physically access the computer (and find my ADB keyboard and mouse and
> > rearrange things to hook up the monitor ;-). Would you really want me
> > to do that? ;-) ;-) ;-)
> >
> > Eric.
> >
> > On 1/27/06, Mark Guertin <guertin at brucemaudesign.com> wrote:
> >> 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.