On 12/31/06, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In hde2 I have a subset of the set of files in hdb6. However,
quite
> surprisingly, the used size in hde2 is greater than the used size in
> hdb6:
>
> /dev/hdb6 71630968 50686876 20944092 71% /mnt/mandriva
> /dev/hde2 74770560 55040436 15931960 78% /mnt/montado
>
> How can it be?!
>
You can use the
du -h on hde2 root, and the same in the directory of hdb6 wich is
copied to hde2, maybe it is related to the cylinders size?
Thanks, Guillermo. I erased the contents of hde2 and used cp instead
of mc to copy from hdb6, and the reported problem did not occur. I
guess that mc may put some temporary files in the destination where it
is copying.
Paul