Re: Space used... by what ??

[Denice <deatrich lcavsun1 epfl ch>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Robert Landry wrote:

> Ok, I installed RH 6 a week ago, and it marked it used something like 320
> MB, both during install, and close to that when explored from within
> Windows - via Partition Magic.
> 
> Then I fooled a bit trying to install WordPerfect 8 : I first copied all
> files in a directory I have created.  Then as my trials always failed, I
> scrapped everything to the Trash.  I went root, and emptied the trash.
> Before I finally copied another version of WordPerfect and install it,
> Partition Magic was still showing around 420MB used: that is almost 100MB
> more than my installation of Linux, and I can't see what these MB are!!...
> 
> Any explanation of what may have happened??  Does the trash empty in...
> another (hidden) trash ??...
> 
> Note: I may sound a bit shaky about a space "as little" as 100MB, but my
> entire space devoted to Linux is 700 MB... (plus a mere 70 MB for swap).


To get some idea of where your space is being used, try (as root)

 cd /
 du -sh *

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