On Fri, 2005-09-23 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? > There may be a hidden directory that ls does not show with the -a option. Try ls -al "/media/*" The name of the directory may be one or more non-printable characters so it will not display, yet is actually there. I had one case where a directory of that sort was created and ls would not show it when in the local directory. Yet if I did something like "ls *" from the parent directory it would show up. Doing a format will ensure such things are wiped out.
