strange strange problem! (please help!!)

[Globe Trotter]

Dear all,

The HDD on my under-warranty Dell Latitude C840 laptop crashed last
weekend. A new (or refurbished) hard drive was installed on
Thursday. And ever since then, I have been trying to get to speed, to
no avail.

So, this is what was done: one of our systems admininstrators installed MS
Windoze XP Professional on the machine and then partitioned the
HDD so that I could put linux on it. The officially 60 GB HDD (which
is actually like 57GB really) was partitioned into 10GB for Windoze,
and the rest for Linux. Using Disk Druid, I partitioned the remainder
further into 40GB for /usr/local (which would also include my home
directory), 1 GB for swap and the remainder for /. /usr/local/ and /
are both ext3 partitions. I installed Fedora Core 3 and everything is
fine. 

Now comes the twist. I have been trying to secure copy all the files
in my office machine (my home directory) to the /usr/local on the laptop. There
are about 21GB worth of files. At start, /usr/local on the laptop has less than
1 GB worth of files. However, I run out of space and it still does not get
done. I must note that du on the directory /usr/local/me on the office Dell
Precision 650 indicates that the size is 

/usr/local> du -sm me
21413   me

However, the laptop is getting swamped, and running out of disk
space. I can understand some amount of discrepancy, but so far off
that a 21GB directory is not fitting in close to 40GB HDD????

Does anyone know what is going on?  Can someone please help?

Thanks and best wishes,
Me

PS: I can not see why this should make a difference, but the command I
give is, as root:

/usr/local>scp -r root at officemachine:/usr/local/me .

Ranjan


		
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