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I have /dev/hdb as my /home partition, formatted with Reiserfs. It's a 40 GB Seagate. On this partition I have three user folders: /friend (for guests), one for my husband, one for me, plus one for /music that everybody can access. I used to have the /music folder in my account, but moved it over to it's own space so everybody could access it.
/friend is configured but doesn't have much data in it. Konqueror shows it takes up 8.6 MB.
/husband (not it's real name) takes up 12.6 MB.
/music takes up 6.6 GB.
/tigerflag (my account) contains approx. 185 MB data by my count, mostly text files and .jpegs, but Konqueror shows it contains 18.2 GB of data!
Konqueror says there is only 12.5 GB free space out of 37.3 GB.
By "Konqueror" I mean I can right-click on a folder in Konqueror and look at the properties to see the size.
*edit: Midnight Commander shows 13 GB free on this drive, similar to what Konqueror shows.
I have looked through all my files, including the hidden files. I don't know what could account for this. Is it possible that when I moved the /music out of my account, it didn't release the space somehow? That folder used to be much bigger than the 6.6 GB it is now.
What tools can I use, commandline or whatever, to see what's really on this drive?
du -h . | sort -n <--shows each folder and size, etc. Specify exact folder where the . is or type out path to location to search.
trickykid, that did it! Thank you so much!
I found an 18 GB folder in ./.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp of every .wav file I ever copied. Apparently k3b doesn't delete those temporary images, even though I set it up to do so.
and:
".. familiarize yourself with command line tools, more reliable."
This tip is definitely going into my cheat note file. Seriously. How do you remember all these things? Do you have them written down somewhere? I have a terrible time remembering formulas and commandline stuff.
Linux is all about using a command or many in series to get the output that you wanted. What I do is think of my goal and then figure out what tools I need to get there. Usually I try one command and then I try another command. I repeat this until I think I got what I wanted. Next I combine the commands with redirectors (<, I, >). Everybody has their own saying when using Linux commands.
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