On Feb 13, 2006, at 18:41, Kurt Cypher wrote:
On 2/13/06, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, this is crazy, and I don't have any idea what to do about it.
I have a 160GB firewire drive that I use for backup. Both "Get Info"
and "df" (the Unix command) show 104GB used, and only 45GB available.
However, "du" (the Unix command) shows only 18GB used on the drive
(e.g. from "du -sh /Volumes/FW_Backup_Drive").
Has anyone ever seen this? Where is the rest of the space? What can I
do to get it back?
Try running "du" with "sudo" (eg. "sudo du -sh
/volumes/FW_Backup_Drive"). du may only be showing the space taken up
by files that your userid has access to find. Using sudo will run du
with root privileges, and might include more files in the size
computation.
Kurt,
Thanks for the reply. I should have specified that I was doing all of
those operations as root already, so the permissions weren't an issue.
I had run them at first as my regular user, and I got several
"permission denied" errors, so I canceled that operation and restarted
as root.
Daniel
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