Dear all, The HDD on my under-warranty Dell Latitude C840 laptop crashed last weekend. A new (or refurbished) hard drive was installed on Thursday. And ever since then, I have been trying to get to speed, to no avail. So, this is what was done: one of our systems admininstrators installed MS Windoze XP Professional on the machine and then partitioned the HDD so that I could put linux on it. The officially 60 GB HDD (which is actually like 57GB really) was partitioned into 10GB for Windoze, and the rest for Linux. Using Disk Druid, I partitioned the remainder further into 40GB for /usr/local (which would also include my home directory), 1 GB for swap and the remainder for /. /usr/local/ and / are both ext3 partitions. I installed Fedora Core 3 and everything is fine. Now comes the twist. I have been trying to secure copy all the files in my office machine (my home directory) to the /usr/local on the laptop. There are about 21GB worth of files. At start, /usr/local on the laptop has less than 1 GB worth of files. However, I run out of space and it still does not get done. I must note that du on the directory /usr/local/me on the office Dell Precision 650 indicates that the size is /usr/local> du -sm me 21413 me However, the laptop is getting swamped, and running out of disk space. I can understand some amount of discrepancy, but so far off that a 21GB directory is not fitting in close to 40GB HDD???? Does anyone know what is going on? Can someone please help? Thanks and best wishes, Me PS: I can not see why this should make a difference, but the command I give is, as root: /usr/local>scp -r root@officemachine:/usr/local/me . Ranjan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
