Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[Michael]

Adam McGreggor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:18:59PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
> df is my preference over du. Has been for yonks. But sometimes, an
> estimate is useful.
>
>   
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Unless something odd was going on with proc, and things, I'm unsure
> what/how.
>
> Still, the machine was in a right state, with god-knows how much un-used
> software, four/five upgrades, and a few broken annoyances, I did the
> unthinkable at reinstalled.
>
> I'm up and running again now, things are far quicker, and i can save
> stuff/work!
>
> Hurrah. Still not sure of what was going on, but I spent as long
> attempting to fix, as the install/rebuild, and gained 'better' results,
> too. A rebuild was going to happen sooner, rather than later, anyhow.
> This decided it.
>
> Cheers for the ideas: shame it didn't work, tho'. (now if only I could
> work out where, apart from ~/.mozilla/foo firefox saved stuff in...)
>
>   
This is probably too simple but I'm going to  ask it anyway.

When you deleted your files did you also empty the trash?

Mike
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