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cannot find what consumes external hdd space?
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<blockquote data-quote="o3d" data-source="post: 799039" data-attributes="member: 85429"><p>My father in law's mac has an external LaCie hdd. In terminal, when I run df -h i get:</p><p></p><p>"/dev/disk1s6 233G 203G 30G 87% /Volumes/LaCie"</p><p></p><p>when i go to /Volumes/LaCie and i run du -hcd 1 i get:</p><p></p><p>"nxxx:/Volumes/LaCie mac$ du -hcd 1</p><p>du: ./.Spotlight-V100/.journalHistoryLog: Permission denied</p><p>du: ./.Spotlight-V100/.store.db: Permission denied</p><p>du: ./.Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist: Permission denied</p><p>du: ./.Spotlight-V100/ContentIndex.db: Permission denied</p><p>du: ./.Spotlight-V100/store.db: Permission denied</p><p>du: ./.Spotlight-V100: Permission denied</p><p> 0B ./.TemporaryItems</p><p>du: ./.Trashes: Permission denied</p><p>272K ./2008-09-02-MyBackup-01</p><p> 57G ./2008-12-07-MyBackup-01</p><p> 0B ./Desktop</p><p> 18G ./iPhoto Library</p><p>1.1G ./My Documents</p><p> 77G .</p><p> 77G total</p><p>nxxx:/Volumes/LaCie mac$ "</p><p></p><p>The df utility shows that the mac is using 203GB whereas du shows the mac is using 77GB. What is consuming the other 124GB?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="o3d, post: 799039, member: 85429"] My father in law's mac has an external LaCie hdd. In terminal, when I run df -h i get: "/dev/disk1s6 233G 203G 30G 87% /Volumes/LaCie" when i go to /Volumes/LaCie and i run du -hcd 1 i get: "nxxx:/Volumes/LaCie mac$ du -hcd 1 du: ./.Spotlight-V100/.journalHistoryLog: Permission denied du: ./.Spotlight-V100/.store.db: Permission denied du: ./.Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist: Permission denied du: ./.Spotlight-V100/ContentIndex.db: Permission denied du: ./.Spotlight-V100/store.db: Permission denied du: ./.Spotlight-V100: Permission denied 0B ./.TemporaryItems du: ./.Trashes: Permission denied 272K ./2008-09-02-MyBackup-01 57G ./2008-12-07-MyBackup-01 0B ./Desktop 18G ./iPhoto Library 1.1G ./My Documents 77G . 77G total nxxx:/Volumes/LaCie mac$ " The df utility shows that the mac is using 203GB whereas du shows the mac is using 77GB. What is consuming the other 124GB? [/QUOTE]
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