Worng filesystem size

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:39:05 +0100, lluishc 
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> 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 th=
> e
> folder duplicated. So I suppose data has been somehow corrupted and there
> they are, lost...
>
Try this:
find / -size +1G -ls 2>/dev/null



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