Empty USB hard drive shows 81% full
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Sat Sep 24 00:56:33 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:19 -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
> I have emptied the trash, run "sync" and rebooted.
>
> $ sudo ls -la /media/SHUTTLE
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 guy staff 4096 Dec 31 1969 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 23 17:04 ..
>
> $ df -h /media/SHUTTLE
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2 5.3G 4.3G 1.1G 81% /media/SHUTTLE
>
> I put the drive in a windows box and it indicates
> that the drive is in fact empty [5.3G Available].
Did you try "du -hs /media/SHUTTLE/*" to see what's sucking up the
space?
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