On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:24:48 -0700 Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo:
>Unfortunately, Thunar just displays all the movies in Movies without >telling me if they are really on the USB drive or whether they are >on /media/jjj/Movies. There are over 1400 folders (one for each movie), >so checking each one individually would be ridiculous. I need a more >efficient way to figure this out. Any suggestions? > >Umount / disconnect the external drive and then check to see if >anything is still in the directory where the drive was mounted. Argh! Too simple. I was looking for something more difficult. :) However, having unmounted and disconnected Movies I discovered that I lied. It is not mounted at /media/jjj/Movies. It is mounted at /media/jjj, and 'Movies' is just the label of the device. When it is not mounted there is no folder 'Movies.' I think my theory just crashed and burned. I also rebooted, but I see no difference in available space on /. This leads me to Data (sda). This has long been a weird device. It appears in Thunar as 'Data,' which is the label that I put on its sole partition. But when mounted it appears as 'Data1,' yet 'Data' also appears. I have a cron job that copies my mail folder to 'Data' every night, yet it appears in Data1; Data is empty. I tried to delete Data1but got the error message that it could not be deleted because itwas busy. I totally do not understand any of this. Other than the copy of my mail folder (about 700MB), there is nothing on the device sda. So right now I deleted its partition and am creating a new one (with no label). I used Palimpsest for this action, and I told it to erase everything with zeros. Just now I looked and it said it would take 16 hours longer. I probably didn't need to be so thorough. Some time tomorrow I will see what happened. In the meantime if anyone has any additional suggestions I'm all ears, er, eyes. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
