Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[Derek Broughton]

Adam McGreggor wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:58:44PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:26 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote:
>> > Any thoughts on *why*, despite having moved stuff off, the machine
>> > still
>> > doesn't think it's got any space?
>> 
>> You might want to run the Disk Usage Analyzer from menu Applications >
>> Accessories, to see where exactly the space is used up.
> 
> No X, but I've "du -hs * | sort -n" 'd a bit.

Well, du -s is provably not telling you what you're really using - as
someone was demonstrating recently -s does _not_ summarize, it simply shows
the space that the top level uses (and -c for totals doesn't work either).
> 
> The issue is deleting stuff does *not* create disk-space. When it ought
> to.
> 
> And the files *are* being deleted.

Then I'd have to guess that when you move them you're still moving them onto
the same filesystem.
-- 
derek