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

[Jima]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 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.

  Nice thought, but I have another twist to it: might the files have been 
hardlinked someplace else?  If there are two files linked to the inode, 
and you delete one, it doesn't delete the other, and release the inode. 
Or something like that.

      Jima