Disk on Key slowly getting smaller

[Dotan Cohen]

On 08/03/2008, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 March 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  > I thought that maybe parts of it were going bad, and the bad sectors
>  > were not being used, but a Windows reformat restores the space.
>
>
> I'll have to watch more closely.  I've seen the .Trash or whatever directory
>  eat up space when I thought I was deleting stuff, but wasn't.  I don't think
>  I've ever noticed any missing space after taking care of this issue.

I have removed the .Trash folder, and another hidden one that looks
related, I don't remember what it was called.

>  I would have suspected something like you did, about bad sectors.
>
>  Who knows.  It's very possible there's some insidious bug with vfat that
>  causes this problem.

One 1GB stick was down to 812 GB capacity when checked with Konqueror.
After a format, it was back up to 996 GB.

Dotan Cohen

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