Where is my 2G?

[ben darby]

* Brian Astill wrote:
> My fault, but if any of you can help me, I'd be grateful.
> 
> My hda Ubuntu partition was looking like it might become a bit 
> cramped eventually (less thsn 2G free), so I decided to pre-empt 
> by creating a partition on hdb to hold  /home (a bit over 3G).  
> That should leave about 5G free on hda - ample.
> 
> I used mc to copy /home from hda to hdb and it looked OK, but near 
> the end of the copy mc said "no space left" - which was daft, 3G 
> can't fill a 12G partition!  Then I looked at hdb and all it had 
> was an empty lost & found directory.
> 
> Then I realised that mc had "copied" onto an unmounted partition!
> I mounted hdb and this time effected a real copy.  BUT!
> hda now showed as being 100% full!  Where had the 2G free gone to?

did you delete the 2G of files you copied to the mountpoint before
mounting the new partition? u'll have to unmount the partition before u
can see the files

> 
> BY deleting the "old" home directory I have freed-up 3G, but there 
> should be 5G+ free.  I have searched the hda partition and cannot 
> find 2G-worth of unwanted files anywhere.  Where ARE they?  

nothing in your .Trash can?


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ben darby
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