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	jedi	2010-11-09 , 13:15
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Originally Posted by tomw889

Hey Jedi

Thanks for that, I gave that a shot and all it showed up at the bottom of the list was existing music folders and maps.

I decided to give deleting all the existing music a shot to see what it would effect and BIG PROBLEM. the contents of the main partition have gone down to 470.7 mbs understandably but the free space has stayed at 3.9GB.... oh crap..

Any Suggestions?

You can scroll up a bit and see the other files/dirs!

Alternatively you could add "|more" to the end to make it stop at the end of each page, but it might take quite a while to see all the files/dirs (press CTRL-C to stop)...

Code:

du -a | sort -n | more

so instead you could add 'r' to the sort command to reverse it...

Code:

du -a | sort -nr | more

By the way, this will show you 'hidden' files (those starting with a '.')

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