OK. Time to do a full back-up (this is mostly junk storage... of course I also have my galleries on there... good excuse to weed out the chaff)
Eric On 1/27/06, Mark Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > haha, it's not my drive that's missing space so it matters not to > me .. but if this is the problem it goes downhill from here and not > always in an orderly fashion. I have a drive doing a low level > format on a home server as I type this due to similar problems. :( > > And yes, use the mac OS based stuff to fix it up if you chose to go > this route... > > Mark > > On 27-Jan-06, at 11:00 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote: > > > Using HFS+ utilities in Linux? I thought they were out-of-date and > > deprecated? > > > > As for running a Mac OS X/Mac OS 9 utility... that would require me to > > physically access the computer (and find my ADB keyboard and mouse and > > rearrange things to hook up the monitor ;-). Would you really want me > > to do that? ;-) ;-) ;-) > > > > Eric. > > > > On 1/27/06, Mark Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Have you run any hfs+ repair tools on this partition lately? Sounds > >> like it might help (just a shot in the dark). > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> On 26-Jan-06, at 10:19 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks for the hint but no such easy luck. > >>> > >>> pdisk shows all the right partition sizes. What's confusing about > >>> this > >>> is that du -h and df -h were showing the correct sizes a few > >>> weeks ago > >>> (this is a server box). Now it's df -h that's off (and, presumably > >>> nautilus uses df -h because nautilus too reports virtually no free > >>> space). > >>> > >>> Eric. > >>> > >>> On 1/26/06, rev rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> I know this may sound silly but, what are the other partitions > >>>> of the > >>>> drive. Could the missing space be there? > >>>> Need to know? > >>>> as root try pdisk > >>>> "pdisk /dev/hdc" > >>>> then > >>>> "pdisk -l" > >>>> This should show you what partitions are on the drive as well as > >>>> the > >>>> size of each. > >>>> I just learned a little bit of "pdisk". So this is why I ask. > >>>> Hope this helps a lil bit, as it were. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 1/26/06, Eric Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> Hello, I've got a bit of an odd situation. > >>>>> > >>>>> I have an HFS plus partition that I mount and use in Linux. I > >>>>> have a > >>>>> symlink to a directory in /mnt/macosx which appears in a Linux smb > >>>>> share that I mount in OS X. I'm missing about 5G of space > >>>>> according to > >>>>> various Linux utilities: > >>>>> > >>>>> df -h reports... > >>>>> > >>>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >>>>> /dev/hdc8 7.7G 5.9G 1.5G 80% / > >>>>> none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm > >>>>> /dev/hdc10 35G 28G 5.8G 83% /home > >>>>> /dev/hdc7 25G 24G 1.7G 94% /mnt/macosx > >>>>> > >>>>> du -h --max-depth=1 from /mnt gives... > >>>>> /mnt/macosx is 19G > >>>>> > >>>>> So, what's going on? I only just noticed it when I deleted a > >>>>> directory > >>>>> that contained about 4.3 GB of files this afternoon. When I > >>>>> checked df > >>>>> -h I only had 2.3 G free (when I had just deleted 4.3 GB from the > >>>>> directory, symlinked to a smb share, mounted in the OS X 10.4.4 > >>>>> Finder). > >>>>> > >>>>> Any guesses as to what's going on? Or ways to get Linux to > >>>>> agree on > >>>>> the amount of space that's free? > >>>>> > >>>>> PS Yes, I realise I probably shouldn't be playing with HFS plus > >>>>> and > >>>>> smb and Mac OS X Finder. > >>>>> > >>>>> Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
