On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:16:46 PDT Jim Shearer <jimshearer at jetbroadband.com>
wrote:
> I installed the Live CD 2008 - 05 on a small drive , 4 gig , I was removing
> some of the non essential things like languages and games and such. Each time
> I did a package remove from the GUI package manager my df -k went the wrong
> way !! . Instead of showing more disk space free it shows less free space.
> Did the remove put the files in some obscure folder and not truly remove them
> ? They go away in the file manager in their normal location yet I wind up
> with less rather than more space when all is done. Not the expected result.
Make sure you haven't got a snapshot of the fs prior to your deleting
those things (a wise thing to have done, actually). In that case,
when you delete them, you create versions of the directories in which
they aren't there, but the space isn't freed, but now charged to the
snapshot instead of your live fs.
<mike
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