Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

[angels mail]

I have the same problem - the disk is full, and I really don't know how and
why.
I have two disks, but I generally use only the first one, because it is
faster and bigger. Days ago, I was told that the disk is full. I cleaned it
up(a lot of Gs), but without success - I was still told, that the disk is
full. Afterwards, I don't know how I made this, but the disk had 11G of free
space. Today I accessed the disk again, because I try very hard to make work
the connection between my computer and the tv and I was thinking that maybe
can make the connection from the other disk. When I went there, I was once
again told, that the disk is full. I really would like to know what is going
on since I removed all my media files and some crap already and now I have
there only few things.
Hm....

2008/1/13, Michael <michaelg at seadreamer.net>:
>
>  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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