Worng filesystem size

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/21/07, lluishc <lluishc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi group
>
> I installed ubuntu in my laptop a few days ago. Yesterday, trying to
> duplicate a data folder in the user folder (/home/user) the process stopped.
> The result is that the free sizes of filesystems do not coincide according
> to where I look them up:
>
> With the command df in the console:
> Filesystem        Blocks   1K     Used         Free      %Used  Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             45358532  24290660  18763752     57%
>     /
>
>
> That is, approx 24 GB used and 18 GB free.
>
> Looking at partitions in GParted the quantities are equivalent.
> BUT, using the disk analyzer included in feisty, quantities are only of 14
> GB used!! This last number is much more real as far as I can estimate. The
> difference between 14 and the previous 24 GB is more or less the size of the
> folder duplicated. So I suppose data has been somehow corrupted and there
> they are, lost...
>
> I have forced a filesystem check in boot, using tune2fs, which has given no
> errors, and everything is still the same as before.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 herd 5, in a laptop Compaq Presario R4000 with
> processor AMD Athlon 64 +3200, 1 GB RAM and 80 GB HDD. Dual boot (grub) with
> WinXP.
>
> ¿What else can i do to free those 10 GB?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

The first thing I'd check is the /lost+found directory on the file
system, but then I'd be as stuck as you :-). Can you post a listing
(ls -l) of what's in lost+found?

-Eamonn