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Offline blue horse

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USB Disk Usage
« on: January 28, 2012, 12:59:56 AM »
i installed CorePlus-4.2 on a 8GB usb CF.
everything works cool.  i can move files back and forth between the CF and PC hard drivet which hosts another much more loaded CorePlus-4.2.
the installation on CF is meant to light-weight, so after i installed necessary softwares (X window, wifi, xfe), i checked the disk usage by using xfe->directory properties of /mnt/sdb1/, it says 192MB, this is a bit surprising, then i checked each sub-directory under /mnt/sdb1/, they add up to a little bit under 50MB which is what i would expect.
so, my question is, as you already guessed, where does the difference come from?

Offline Rich

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Re: USB Disk Usage
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 01:43:16 AM »
Hi blue horse
Try using one of the command line utilities  df  or  du
For more info:
df --help
du --help

Offline vinnie

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Re: USB Disk Usage
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 09:33:57 AM »
or download extension gdmap.tcz  ;)

Offline blue horse

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Re: USB Disk Usage
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2012, 12:31:18 PM »
using du, i found there is a ./.local/Share/Trash directory that holds contents i previous deleted.  i didn't expect Trash folder would survive reboot, how do i clean it?

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Re: USB Disk Usage
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2012, 12:49:12 PM »
Hi blue horse
A quick search with Google would have found this for you:
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php?page=docs
Look under:
Below are the default X File Explorer key bindings. These key bindings are specific to the xfe application

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: USB Disk Usage
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2012, 12:55:23 PM »
You can add Trash to /opt/.xfiletool.lst.