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

Karl Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 12:11:07 UTC 2010


On 04/21/2010 02:24 AM, Tom Sparks wrote:
> I have empty hard drive, but 42,584 MB is being used
> I have run sudo rm -rf *.* on the drive, same result
>
> # Total Space: 64,001 MB
> # Space Used: 42,584 MB
> # Space Free: 21,416 MB
>
> what can i do?
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> tom_a_sparks
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         To clear the hard drive you do the same thing you do if you 
load a new Ubuntu system. It lets you format the hard drive and makes a 
swap partition and this on top of whatever is 42.584 GB.

73 Karl


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