Praedor, My Boss had a similar problem on 7.2 box he uses in the office. Turned out that the disks had originally bee formated for a Mac not DOS. We removed all data (Linux was kind enough to read the data) and fdisked them so that the file system is not Mac reformated them DOS then ext2 (double wipe) and all of the space came back. Seems to be a bug in emulation of MAC files, it removes the fie from viewing but it's still there taking up space.
James On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 06:29, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I keep running into this problem. I have a 100 MB zip disk that was almost > full. I removed the files from it and then attempted to copy new files onto > it. I immediately get a string of "no space left on device" messages. Of > course there is space, I deleted everything on it and the files I am trying > to copy to it total less than 100 MB. > > I removed the zip disk and reinserted it and did df. It STILL shows it as > something like 99% full when in fact there is nothing on it. There are no > hidden files on it either. It seems that supermount gets it into its head > that a disk has X much space on it and nothing short of a logout and login > again will change its mind on the matter. Has anyone else come across this? > What is the trick, if any, to getting supermount to REALLY update itself (or > df) to reality instead of relying on some cache - which is what I am assuming > it is doing since the disk is empty but "df" indicates no change whatsoever > in the disk. > > praedor > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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