what´s taking up all this space on my hdd?

[anthony baldwin]

niel wrote:
> Try: 
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> sudo cfdisk /dev/sda (scsi type - newer)
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> or (depending on your harddisk type)
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> sudo cfdisk /dev/hda  (pci type - older)
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> Be careful - but then you should be able to see free space of your harddisk.
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> Your explanation looks a bit confusing to me *smile*
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> Seems that you are mixing harddisk space and partition space.
> *****
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> On Friday 16 November 2007 19.21.12 anthony baldwin wrote:
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>> Okay,
>> I'm just a bundle of joy this week, eh...
>> This is really, really weird.
>>
>> I'm running Dapper, right, and I decided to try feisty, so
>> I stuck in the livecd and made a partition and installed feisty.
>> I used about 140gb of my drive.  I figured I'd hang out with feisty and
>> leave dapper as a backup, or something.
>> I left my dapper install on about 45 gb.
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>> Then, I decided that I'd rather stick with dapper...
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>> So, I stuck the live cd back in, and deleted the feisty partition,
>> resized my dapper partition to 140, made a new 45gb partition
>> and installed feisty on that little partition, just for back up.
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>> Now, kdiskfree, the gnome disk thingy, and every other indicator
>> is telling me that the dapper partition of c. 140gb has only 8gb
>> of free space, even though it only identifies about 30gb
>> of contents on the partition (most of which is my large collection
>> of excellent Brazilian music...and tonso documents I've translated over
>> the past year).
>> So...if I only have 30gb of stuff on a 140gb partition, why
>> do I have only 8gb of free space on said partition?
>> What´s taking up the other c. 102gb of space?
>> Dryer elves storing my lost socks?
>>
>> This is freaking me out, man...
>>
>> you dudes rock
>> thanks for all the help
>>
>> /tony
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Oh yeah....
Will I have to use the live cd to do this?
I mean, can I cfdisk a mounted disk/partition?

Oddly, some of these disk apps thingys are showing
that it is only a 44gb partition, and80% full,
while others show that it is, indeed, as it should be,
a 140gb partition, yet with only 33gb o stuff, and only 8gb free space.
weird, eh?

/tony

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