Space on disk much larger than actual filesizes

Bhaskar Kandiyal bkandiyal at gmail.com
Sat May 19 13:45:49 UTC 2012


On 05/19/2012 12:30 AM, Keith Clark wrote:
> I just tried the baobab program and it seems to be reporting properly.
> 
> PCManFM is reporting a huge difference and that seems to be where the
> problem is.  For instance, my /usr directory is 2.6 GB, PCManFM reports
> 2.3 GB total size of files and 22.0 GB space taken up on disk.  This is
> quite the margin of error!
> 
> Keith
> 

Yes I think this needs fixing as new users would probably get confused :)

PS: Forgot to forward to the list, sorry for any double email :P

Cheers,
Bhaskar Kandiyal



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