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Wrong calculation of free disk space by kdiskfree

Hello
i have been looking for a 3 GB disk space for some downloads and i used kdiskfee and it was totally impossible to find that i have used only 3% on my main storage drive

after using the ordinary method (Right click> properties on the mounted drive's folder) i got the accurate results but in a long time indeed (you may check the screenshot http://www.boomspeed.com/darkknight/win_d.jpg 180 kb

there was no change after using the update option of kdiskfree

and there is no need to tell you i want that simple program to calculate things right for me

Thanks
Ahmad

Did you try "du -sh ." in that directory from a terminal?
Or "df -h" in a terminal?

Code:

bruce@silas:~$ du -sh .

9.7G    .



bruce@silas:~$ df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda7            5.6G  3.2G  2.5G  56% /

/dev/sda6              95M  37M  58M  40% /boot

/dev/sda8              21G  16G  5.0G  76% /home

/dev/sda1              15G  6.1G  8.7G  42% /WinXP

/dev/sda2              19G  11G  8.1G  57% /Shared

/dev/sdb2            9.4G  6.9G  2.5G  75% /Slack_shared

/dev/sdb6            5.6G  3.1G  2.6G  55% /Slack_root

/dev/sdb7            9.4G  8.7G  682M  93% /Slack_home

/dev/sdb8              28G  14G  15G  48% /Slack_network

/dev/sdb9              19G  16G  2.9G  85% /Slack_fileshare

Code:

[gazzaz@localhost ~]$ df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda5            3.9G  3.3G  372M  91% /

/dev/hda1            4.7G  4.5G  197M  96% /mnt/win_c

/dev/hda7              24G  688M  23G  3% /mnt/win_d

/dev/hda8              24G  14G  11G  57% /mnt/win_e

/dev/hda9              19G  250M  19G  2% /mnt/win_f



[gazzaz@localhost win_d]$ du -sh .

du: `./_1 Quran': No such file or directory

du: `./ids': No such file or directory

du: `./New Folder (3)': No such file or directory

du: `./Documents': No such file or directory

du: `./Profiles': No such file or directory

du: `./WUTemp': No such file or directory

du: `./rally': No such file or directory

du: `./movies': No such file or directory

16G    .



[gazzaz@localhost win_d]$ du -sh

du: `./New Folder (2)': No such file or directory

du: `./New Folder (3)': No such file or directory

du: `./to cd': No such file or directory

du: `./Arabic old songs': No such file or directory

du: `./Movies SoundTracks': No such file or directory

du: `./Documents': No such file or directory

du: `./webshots': No such file or directory

du: `./Profiles': No such file or directory

du: `./Acronis.Partition.Expert.2003': No such file or directory

du: `./WUTemp': No such file or directory

du: `./rally': No such file or directory

du: `./movies': No such file or directory

13G    .

same old results plus i can not understand what happened although i used du --help

Thanks