!!Where is my 2G? - THANKS

[Brian Astill]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 00:32, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
>  To check, I would try booting in recovery mode, so that
> you are the root user in a console, and home is not being used
> for anything.  At this point, umount /dev/hdb7.
> Change to the home directory, and anything that is in there
> (except . and ..) are files that will take up space, but not be
> accessible while home is mounted.  Deleting them should get
> your space back.

Obviously, Matthew is a genius - or I am!
I did as I thought I had done before - this time in recovery mode, 
following Matt's advice.  My contribution was to reboot 
using "shutdown -rF now" which forces a filecheck.  That happened 
and fsck wanted to reboot again - and check the fs again.  After 
this, Dapper did NOT complain I didn't have a /home directory AND 
I now have 3.3G free on hda2.  Yeah!

All is not yet _completely_ over.  There is still 2G floating 
somewhere on hda2 - I had 1.8G free, moved 3.9G - but still have 
only 3.3G free!
/dev/hda2             11661852   7792368   3277088  71% /
/dev/hdb7             11258648   3908832   6777904  37% /home
and for some reason, my son's directory shows up as it should 
under /home (in your file manager of choice) - but if I look 
at /mnt/hdb7 it shows only my directory.  Odd?

BUT it IS now a workable system, so thanks, everyone.

-- 
Regards,
Brian