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nrhughes 03-18-2005 07:58 PM

Hard disk space mismatch
 
I'm running Debian experimental on a homecooked 2.6.10-ac kernel.
I'm using two vanilla 7200 RPM IDE hard drives, one of which is NOT automount.

df shows the following
/dev/hda1 55748380 37701256 15215268 72% /
tmpfs 257908 0 257908 0% /dev/shm

When I look in konqueror, it tells me there are 14.5 GB free out of 53.2 GB total, but when I actually calculate usage, I only come up with 16.9 GB (or so) in use.

I forced a fsck, that turned up zilch.

I googled and searched to no avail. But I may just be an idiot and have used the wrong keywords.

I do transfer large files and torrents back and forth from this machine, and fear something has "gummed" my drive up.

I know for a fact I have more space than this. I have deleted most of the non system/program files from my HD, and am pretty sure that at the very most, I could be burning 25 gigs.

What should I do to resolve my problem?
Thank you for any help or attention you can give.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} 03-18-2005 08:56 PM

Do a search on defragment or defragmentation, there is a post here about defragging after using torrent. I read it but can't remember the reason or if defragging was the solution.

nrhughes 03-18-2005 10:16 PM

Thanks. It looks like exim went totally bonkers and dumped 19 gigs worth of junk in my HD (that konqueror didn't detect). I will try defragging after I kill and eradicate exim.


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