Empty USB hard drive shows 81% full

[Richard C. Isaacson]

Have you tried reformating it? I have had to do that a couple of times.

Guy Fraser wrote:

>I have emptied the trash, run "sync" and rebooted.
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>$ sudo ls -la /media/SHUTTLE
>total 12
>drwxr-xr-x  2 guy  staff 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
>drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Sep 23 17:04 ..
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>$ df -h /media/SHUTTLE
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda2             5.3G  4.3G  1.1G  81% /media/SHUTTLE
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>I put the drive in a windows box and it indicates 
>that the drive is in fact empty [5.3G Available].
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>What's up with that?
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