<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Adam McGreggor wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20080113022029.GG12476@tanqueray.amyl.org.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:18:59PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Adam McGreggor wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:58:44PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:26 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Any thoughts on *why*, despite having moved stuff off, the machine still doesn't think it's got any space? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">You might want to run the Disk Usage Analyzer from menu Applications > Accessories, to see where exactly the space is used up. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">No X, but I've "du -hs * | sort -n" 'd a bit. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">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). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> df is my preference over du. Has been for yonks. But sometimes, an estimate is useful. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The issue is deleting stuff does *not* create disk-space. When it ought to. And the files *are* being deleted. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Then I'd have to guess that when you move them you're still moving them onto the same filesystem. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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...) </pre> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>