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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:49:44
Message-Id: 48D44C26.2050602@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared by ert256
1 ert256 ha scritto:
2 > Hello
3 > I have some weird problem width NTFS partition in linux environment.
4 > I have Knoppix LiveCD on some machine, which i want to clean out.
5 > There was some virus and windows is unusable, so I'm copying data over
6 > network to other machine, but what is the point
7 > /media/sda5 is ntfs mounted in rea-only mode
8 > root@Knoppix:/media# df -h
9 > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
10 > /dev/sda5 31G 29G 2.3G 93% /media/sda5
11 > root@Knoppix:~# du -h --summarize /media/sda5/
12 > 19G /media/sda5/
13 > I cannot fire up windows, because it is dangerous, and that windows on
14 > this machine is broken.
15 > Question is : Where is missing 10G on NTFS partition ? Can I safely
16 > clean disk without risk of data loss?
17 > Thank you
18 >
19
20 du and df show different things.
21 There was a thread, recently, on the subject:
22 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/170503
23
24 m.

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Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>