Space on disk much larger than actual filesizes

[Will Fong]

Hi Keith,

Can you show us some examples of what you're seeing?

Thanks,
-will


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Keith Clark <keithclark at k-wbookworm.com>wrote:

> I'm having an issue with running out of space very quickly on a fairly
> freshly installed Lubuntu.  While investigating, I've noticed that every
> directory is showing about 8x's more space taken up on the disk than the
> actual combined filesizes.  One directory has 114 MB on it, but it is
> taking up 918 MB of space on the disk.
>
> I'm not sure why this would be.  I have MySQL, PHP, Apache and Minecraft
> installed and I've used up 5.2 GB of my 8.0 GB hard drive, does this sound
> right?  Sounds huge to me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
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