On 12/31/06, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/31/06, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In hde2 I have a subset of the set of files in hdb6. However, quite > > surprisingly, the used size in hde2 is greater than the used size in > > hdb6: > > > > /dev/hdb6 71630968 50686876 20944092 71% /mnt/mandriva > > /dev/hde2 74770560 55040436 15931960 78% /mnt/montado > > > > How can it be?! > > > You can use the > du -h on hde2 root, and the same in the directory of hdb6 wich is > copied to hde2, maybe it is related to the cylinders size? Thanks, Guillermo. I erased the contents of hde2 and used cp instead of mc to copy from hdb6, and the reported problem did not occur. I guess that mc may put some temporary files in the destination where it is copying. Paul
Nice to know that your problem has gone, regards, Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://www.go2linux.org
