On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:33:05 -0800 (PST), Globe Trotter <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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???? > What do you get when you run the following command (BEFORE you start the copy): df -k /usr/local
