Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux leaking space on FAT partitions! | From | (Kevin Buhr) | Date | 03 Dec 1999 14:29:43 -0600 |
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Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org> writes: > > It got to the point where windows was saying there was 1.4gb free on my > FAT32 D: partition, and Linux was insisting there was 270mb. I did a cat > /dev/zero >/Ddos/foo which filled the 270mb space Linux thought there > was, went to windows, It said there was 1.2 gb free, I ran Norton > Scandisk, no complaints, I duplicated the foo file until there was 210mb > left, went back to Linux, now it says there's 210mb free, deleted the > foo files, 1.4gb free.
This is just a guess, since I don't have a Windows machine to test it on, but perhaps you're just seeing the effects of Windows automanaging its own swap file. Check the Windows Control Panel settings: if you've told Windows to automatically manage swap, change the settings to hold swap space at a reasonable maximum size, and see if that fixes the problem.
If that fails, try running "du" on your FAT partitions, and save the output somewhere. When you discover you've lost a few hundred megs, run "du" on the same partitions again, and see where they differ, if anywhere.
Kevin <buhr@stat.wisc.edu>
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