Empty USB hard drive shows 81% full

[Guy Fraser]

On Fri, 2005-23-09 at 17:19 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> I have emptied the trash, run "sync" and rebooted.
> 
> $ 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 ..
> 
> $ df -h /media/SHUTTLE
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2             5.3G  4.3G  1.1G  81% /media/SHUTTLE
> 
> I put the drive in a windows box and it indicates 
> that the drive is in fact empty [5.3G Available].
> 
> What's up with that?
OK I don't know what the problem was.

I put 3GB of files on it using a windows machine
and now it shows the correct usage.

$ sudo df -h /media/SHUTTLE
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             5.3G  3.2G  2.1G  61% /media/SHUTTLE

Go figure.