backup manager

[Lylex11]

Hi, I installed backup manager and set archive folder to /media/sda4. When I activated backup-manager I forgot to mount /media/sda4 first. I now have a MASSIVE archive somewhere (15Gig or so), but I can't find it. I've searched for it everywhere. Baobab (Disk Usage Analyser) reports I have 15.8GB files, but says I have used 33.0GB of space - I'm guessing that's my system+home files plus the missing (hidden) backup archive. But baobab doesn't show where the archive is. Can anyone help me delete the archive files? I currently have 1.8Gig free space and want more!

Oh, here is what "df -a" gives me...
lylex11:~$ df -a
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 38441132 34551340 1937092 95% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
/sys 0 0 0 - /sys
varrun 510056 88 509968 1% /var/run
varlock 510056 0 510056 0% /var/lock
udev 510056 72 509984 1% /dev
devshm 510056 0 510056 0% /dev/shm
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
lrm 510056 35120 474936 7% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-rt/volatile
/dev/sda1 48052 0 48052 0% /media/sda1
securityfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/security

as you can see, 95% HD used (I have a 40GB partition), but I can only find 15.8GB in nautilus or Baobab.

If you can help... Thanks so much

[OliverKurz]

Hi,
in case some partition is mounted now over /media/sda4, the content of the directory '/media/sda4' on the '/' partition is hidden.
Therefore it might help to unmount /media/sda4 ('sudo umount /media/sda4') and delete the contents of the mountpoint manually (if you can find the backup archive there).
Anyway, Baobab should be able to tell you, but maybe not for all directories if entries are hidden or not accessible by your user account.

[hyper_ch]

find -size +10G

that should output all files bigger than 10GB

[Lylex11]

Thanks OliverKurz for the above tips. The mount point "/" was indeed hidden. Very helpful. I've managed to delete the hidden backups. Thanks!