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

[Rick Thomas]

Just a thought...

When you "deleted" the 4.3 GB, are you sure it's really gone?  Did it 
maybe get moved into a trash-bin of some kind, where it's still taking 
up space?  (look for a directory called ".trash" or something like 
that...)  You might try the UNIX "find(1)" utility to look for the 
"deleted" files by name.  If you can find them, they weren't really 
deleted.

Rick

On Jan 27, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> 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 I thought they were out-of-date and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.
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