Yesterday I tried to copy my home folder in another partition (sad4), when I rebooted sda4 was empty. But the real matter is that dolphin says to me that I have just 1 Gb on 29 free. It seems that the copy of my folder(14gb) was made in / and not in sda4. If I check all directories in / I can’t find this copy, but if I use du and I check the dimension of all my directories I see 14 gb and not 29 !!!
what can I do ?
Do you know a file name of the things you copy ?
If so ask for a terminal su enter
Paswword enter
Give the command whereis filename
It might show the place of original file and the copied file
dobby 9
I didi this:
su password
whereis filename
I obtained
filename:
That’s it. I tried to find the directory also using the kde search utility but it didn’t find the copy. I know it sounds absurd but …
su enter
password enter
you so see the line change in name and color
whereis filename enter
If I see you’re answer you did not become root
dobby9
I was root… I am sure…
Yesterday I tried to do the copy because I had problems with fstab. I did the copy by the “safe-mode”, after doing the copy I resolved the matter with fstab, but when I tried to enter as normal user, suse didn’t let me enter, so I realized the partition was full, I deleted a movie, so I was able to enter again. But before I had 15 gb free, it really seems that it made the copy on /… but I can’t see where …
What command did you use to make the copy ?
You did not copy in it self ?
dobby9
by the “safe mode” I did :startx , and I used dolphin to copy my home folder. I have just gone on /: if I go in proprieties and I check the dimension it tells me 15 gb but dolphin says to me that I have 2% of free space on 25 gb how is it possible ?
It seems that somewhere there is a “hide” copy of the folder…
Search HD with the option show hidden files
using Dolphin or Nautilus.
BTW what tels option diskfree how space is used
dobby9
I used kdirstat it tells me that / use just 13/29 gb, but dolphin tells I have just 1,5 gb free.
I have searched everywhere also in hidden files…
diskfree tells as dolphin
andrea 10 wrote:
> It seems that the copy of my folder(14gb) was made in / and not in sda4.
if you have access to Konqueror, go View > View Mode > File Size View
and wait a little…the window will fill with colored rectangles,
each sized according to the size of the directory…
you SHOULD be able to spot the two which are 14GB
or, you said “I tried to find the directory also using the kde search
utility but it didn’t find the copy.”
go back to the search utility, and have it look for a file you KNOW
exists in your original /home, like look at your desktop, doesn’t it
have file you dropped there? if so, just search for THAT file…your
search should find TWO of them…(if you don’t have a file on your
desktop, then look in /Documents)…
btw, i can make ‘whereis’ find anything either…mostly because man
whereis holds out little hope for that happening…certainly, it
cannot find “filename” unless you actually HAVE a file by that name…
good luck on finding where you stuffed that copy! by the way, what
tool did you use to make the copy? and, where did you MOUNT sda4
before you tried to copy to it?
oh! my kde search utility defaults to searching my /home only…that
is, it shows
Look in: file:///home/[My User ID]
to search the ENTIRE drive system, erase that down to just /
understand??
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:06:01 GMT
andrea 10 <andrea_10@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Yesterday I tried to copy my home folder in another partition (sad4),
> when I rebooted sda4 was empty. But the real matter is that dolphin
> says to me that I have just 1 Gb on 29 free. It seems that the copy of
> my folder(14gb) was made in / and not in sda4. If I check all
> directories in / I can’t find this copy, but if I use du and I check
> the dimension of all my directories I see 14 gb and not 29 !!!
> what can I do ?
>
>
Check the output of df -h and see what directory is taking up the most
space. Then change to that directory and run du -h to see what
files/directories are the biggest.