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Re: [opensuse] usb storage and free space calculation
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:22:41 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702071718500.19317@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Wednesday 2007-02-07 at 14:57 -0000, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

> Runing SuSE 10. I have a 4G usb storage device which mounts
> and unmounts fine. If I plug it into a winxp machine then
> it is reported as having 1G free space. When I plug it into
> SuSE 10 then it is reported as being full. (NB winxp copied
> a 500 meg file onto it with no problem).

Did you try comandline "df"?

Does it have a trash directory, filling space? My guess would be that XP
is not counting that space as "used".

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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