I have a problem to gain my hardisk size after deleting a large amount of files. i have root partition size with 196 GB. actual used size in that partition is about 70GB, with command df -h, the used size 139GB. I have no idea to find out where is the hidden files. this happend after I delete the large amount of files because the hardisk almost full. the file i have deleted is almost 60 GB size.
View 3 Repliesi manage to delete some files from the system. now i need to recover them.. i know the inode # (through ext3undel) and also the size.Quote:Unfortunately, we cannot automatically obtain the name of a deleted filefrom Unix file systems - since the connection between the iNode (whichholds the MetaData, including the file namee real data is droppedon deletion. However, we can obtain a list of names from the deleted files.How can i use this information to recover the files?Also can i search the text from a partition? (file don't exists). As i need figures
View 3 Replies View RelatedI run whole batch of simulations and taking a lot of diskspace (8Gbytes). I have deleted them after examine the results. However, the diskspace remained the same even though i have deleted the files (rm -rf *). Sound like the program does not release the diskspace (maybe in cache or virtual memory? ). It only release the diskspace after i exit completely the program.
Is there a way to ask the program to release the diskspace without exit the program?
The app in linux server(CentOS 5.3) uses files from a mount directory(Shared windows directory in read only mode). At the same time, the same file might be edited by user in windows env. We were assuming that as the windows folders are mounted in read-only mode in linux so any change done by user in windows environment would be fail safe i.e. can be safely committed to the file. But when the file concurrently used both by Linux and as well by windows, at some point linux does not release the file handles and the files get corrupted(deleted too). Earlier we were using win2k server and this step was hardly reproducible and win2k was releasing file handles quickly. But with centos, we really had touch time managing files.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI searched the forum with various terms and didn't find anything, so my apologies if this is a common and/or newbie problem.It seems that when I have a USB driveplugged in to switch the files around, those that I delete are still taking up space. I first noticed it with a Chinese MP3 player and thought it was the player being crappy. I could still play all the songs that were supposedly gone. Today, I noticed it with a little thumb drive that I've had for years. I plugged it into my husband's computer running winXP, and the files showed up in a weird, unusable form. I was able to delete them for real.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI get a SD card. Put in the SD reader. It's empty. I go to my super-important-pictures-to-a-monthly-relatory folder and select all files. Select them for MOVE. Paste them on the SD card. When the move/paste process is finished, i click on the "Eject" button on top of the SD card name. Card's ejected. I can't access the card anymore. I take out the card and put on my other computer. From 300 pictures, there are only 10 available, the remaining ones are there, but with 0bytes and unrecoveable. I panic. I go back to my main computer, my pictures are not there anymore. The pictures were on the Home folder. I panic again. I reset the computer and boot on the LiveCD. I install foremost, scalpel, photorec and about everything till my USB drive complains about being filled up. I run everything and I can't recover my files. I'm in the danger of getting fired. Things like that makes Windows sounds more appealing. When you securely remove a pendrive, things get REALLY pasted there before screwing everything up with a removal.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a Kingston 8gb Datatraveler that has been giving me troubles lately. For some reason after I delete files from it it still shows up as full and the files are shown in the hidden trash files. How do I get rid of these files? I can't delete them as they just show back up. Also, I tried to format the drive with gparted and it won't unmount. When I right click and select information, at the bottom it says: Unable to find mount point. Unable to read the contents of the file system. Because of this, some operations may be unavailable.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn a KDE4 environment after downloading some music from rapidshare with JDownloader the archives self-extracted with the symbol in some of the file names. Those files couldn't be renamed or deleted, the file manager said that the files didn't exist - very weird. The files should have had some swedish characters in their file names. Now I'm stuck with those files on my machine. Anyone knows how to get rid of them?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was working on my Ubuntu lab machine and unconsciously deleted the project files I was working on. I have been working on the project since last 10 days now. Is there a way to restore the files? I do not have sudo access. I was working in my home directory which is served by a common file system (serving all the lab machines).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and every several reboots my hardisk is checked for errors. It tooks about 1 hour or more. Is there a simple way to disable it and to perform these checks only when requested
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to ask, its is possible to install ubuntu in a harddisk as a non persistent environment? i mean, i want my ubuntu is always clean everytime it is restart, like a live usb.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently reinstalled karmic, after upgrading lucid messed up my display.
I did not do a hard disk wipe, but just installed karmic in a new partition.
This presents a problem, which I think is due to permissions, that my other partitions does not mount automatically. Boot up shows a message that there's error.
After looking through the forums, most related issues i see are external devices (I may have missed it). Mine, however, is internal hard drive.
I have to manually mount it in desktop, by password authentication
Here's my fstab:
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I would like to auto-mount it during boot, and perhaps get rid of the weird UUID.
I am newer to Linux ( using Ubuntu 10.04) : I have noticed that during replacement of a file , no date and size of the new and old files are shown in the dialogue box so how to show that ( like the one in windows)
I know that it is easy question , but i really don't know how to do that , by the way I have checked folder preferences and system --> preferences but i did not find something for that
I have a complete back-up file (on tgz) of a hardisk. I have already installed a SuSe Linux system on my computer. Can someone please provide a step by step procedure on how to install this back-up files?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI did an update on one of my main computers last night. while in the update it reported "293 files to be REMOVED and 1 to be added".... it cranked away for some time and now all I get is a text login to my desktop. There is no graphics anymore. just a command line.
Is there any way to make it boot the way it used to or will I have to reinstall without formatting my hard drive (if so, how do I do this?)? I have checked and all my personal data is in tact. I was running Hardy Heron with 5.4 gigs of an 80 Gig HD free and 2 Gigs of RAM with an AMD 5000+ processor.
I use XBMC a lot and recenty i have been trying to download movies i have d/l using SABNZBDPLUS. I noticed my 320GB getting low so i tried deleting the files within the folder itself but got this message "Cannot move file to the deeted items folder, do you want to delete permanently?". Anyway i tried to delete but i guess it would not also the main folder had a lock icon on it.
So i read somewhere you can use nautilus in the terminal and once i navigated to the folder in question i pressed the delete key on my keyboard. The file is not in my trash can and i dont think is permenantly deleted as my disc space has not been reduced.
The question is simple. I had a FAT external pendrive with some thing of it, and I've stupidly shift-del eted 2 folders that now i needed. Could be possible to retrieve the deleted files?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to get back two avi movie files but I've deleted hundreds and any recovery might try and drop them back on my small hard disk and overwhelm it! I know the files include the word 'Archer' but I'm using Formost, which is very easy to use, but it doesn't seem to allow for the searching of specific files by name. I can recover by type ie, avi, jpeg, pdf.....
Are there any recovery programs that will list files in a table so I can pick the ones I want to recover or do a search in Terminal for my 'Archer' files?
Deleted a whole bunch of files, I have backed it up but it was from about 2 weeks ago and as I had added loads of stuff in the meantime I urgently need to recover the files.Ubuntu 9.10. Any and every file recovery program you know please.Preferably one that allows me to recover an entire directory, not just individual files, but it'll be fine if that is it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to deep clean the supposedly "empty" areas of HDD. I've found "shred" and similar tools by googling, but they allow either deleting a file or complete wipeout of a HDD. What I'd like to do is clean up what's left of already deleted files (which can probably be still "undeleted") on a live HDD (with useful data, which doesn't need to be destroyed).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have accidentally deleted all the files in my /boot directory of my Lynx 10.04 64bits installation.
Is there any way I can manually reinstall them ? I need just to reinstall a kernel so I can reboot
Can I manually copy them from somewhere (CD, etc.)
Yesterday I accidentaly deleted all files from my desktop (with rm). Now I am looking for way how to recover them.
I tried to use scalpel to recover them which found many files (more than 800000 zip files). I stopped the process cause It would take ages. I would like to recover files only from desktop folder. Is this possible?
Is there some other good recovery program?
Using Ubuuntu 10.04.
Ubuntu 9.10 I recently deleted some files. I would like to know are the files kept in a directory? Like in windows recycle bin. I would like to know where these files are?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a lot of .pyc and .pyo files and I really need the space. I was wonder if I can remove them as I know python will create them automatically.At the moment, I need to make sure I have the space and only this files I can delete... should this be fine?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried to include new software sources for VLC and Wine. Something went wrong and the authentication keys didn't work right, and were producing errors of authentication.
In one moment of carelessness (other word for stupidity) I deleted all the authentication keys from the software sources and of course with all the updates I am getting that software cannot be authenticated.
I clicked on "restore defaults" but still it isn't working right. I tried for example to install "Filezilla" and I got a warning that software could not be authenticated and installation stopped.
Does anyone know how I can restore all the proper authenticating keys?
I haven't been able to find anything on the 'net about this: when running "rkhunter --enable all", I get this warning:
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However, when I navigate to the gvfs-metadata folder, the home file is there, 124.8Kb in size, of unknown type and gedit can't open it. The file in /tmp/, on the other hand, doesn't exist.
Why is Terminal using a deleted file, and why is the home file being reported as deleted when it isn't?
I accidentally permanently deleted a few files and I was wondering if there was a program that finds the files that were deleted and restores them?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIf I move a file to the trash,I can restore it later.But if I empty the trash,I'll be warned that I cannot recover the files if I proceed.Is this really true or are there Linux applications for recovering files deleted from the trash?Uhm...are the files deleted completely and unrecoverably or are there any traces left behind?
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I recently deleted some files. I would like to know are the files kept in a directory? Like in windows recycle bin. I would like to know where these files are?
I had a back-up of the files of someone . He realized that he wants those files , after I had deleted them . And now I need to recover them . How can I do that?
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