What does du -sh /media/dz shows ?

Regards
Majoosh


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:36 PM, David Zuccaro <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to report a strange problem. I was backing up my desktop last
> night to an external usb disk last night. The backup failed to complete
> because I completely filled up the disk.
>
> df -h
> /dev/sdf1       1.4T  1.4T     0 100% /media/dz/5540d70d-...
>
> So this morning I deleted (using sudo rm -rf) an old directory on the usb
> disk which had about 30 GB of data in it. Now the problem is that df still
> reports the disk is completely full -- even after rebooting.
>
> /dev/sdf1       1.4T  1.4T     0 100% /media/dz/5540d70d-...
>
> Can someone please explain to what is going on here?
>
> Thanks
>
> David Zuccaro
>
> BSc (Chemistry, University Of Melbourne), GradDipCompSci (Monash),
> GradDipEd (Melbourne)
>
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