empty hard drive, 50% used (no files??)

[Henry Dubb]

Two things I'd rule out are backup files and recycle bin. If for example you
set the drive for a backup recently or have deleted files that are still in
bin.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:24:07AM -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
> > I have empty hard drive, but 42,584 MB is being used
> > I have run sudo rm -rf *.* on the drive,
>
> That command makes no sense: it removes all files that have a dot in the
> middle of the name.  Many files in Linux don't have dots.
>
> > same result
> >
> > # Total Space: 64,001 MB
> > # Space Used: 42,584 MB
> > # Space Free: 21,416 MB
> >
> > what can i do?
>
> Check with du /media/yourharddisk whether there are hidden files.
>
> Unmount the disk and check the filesystem with fsck: maybe the free
> space numbers are incorrect.
>
> HTH,
> Marius Gedminas
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