labrat256
October 1st, 2010, 02:13 AM
Hello
I'm having a problem whereby I delete a film from the root directory of an SD card; the file is over a GiB in size. I then try to paste another film in it's place (about 350 MiB) and get a 'not enough free space' error. After checking that the wastebasket is empty and unmounting and remounting the SD card, I notice that it still says that the space remaining on the card is no different. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and if it at all matters, its a FAT formatted non-SDHC card being used in my built in card reader on a Toshiba Equium laptop.
I've searched for the file, gone into the terminal and looked at the directory, used "du -s -m *" to see the disk usage. "du -s -m" returns the number 400, but the individual files and folders when using "du -s -m *" sum only to about 250, and the original film isn't one of the listed files.
So I've come to one conclusion, that the file is actually deleted, but nautilus for some reason hasn't noticed it isn't there, and hence thinks the space isn't free. Is there anyway to force nautilus to rescan a directory at all to actually check the files and folders therein?
This isn't the first time I've had this problem. The last time, it was solved by plugging the offending medium into a windows machine and doing it that way, but its not possible now.
labrat256
I'm having a problem whereby I delete a film from the root directory of an SD card; the file is over a GiB in size. I then try to paste another film in it's place (about 350 MiB) and get a 'not enough free space' error. After checking that the wastebasket is empty and unmounting and remounting the SD card, I notice that it still says that the space remaining on the card is no different. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and if it at all matters, its a FAT formatted non-SDHC card being used in my built in card reader on a Toshiba Equium laptop.
I've searched for the file, gone into the terminal and looked at the directory, used "du -s -m *" to see the disk usage. "du -s -m" returns the number 400, but the individual files and folders when using "du -s -m *" sum only to about 250, and the original film isn't one of the listed files.
So I've come to one conclusion, that the file is actually deleted, but nautilus for some reason hasn't noticed it isn't there, and hence thinks the space isn't free. Is there anyway to force nautilus to rescan a directory at all to actually check the files and folders therein?
This isn't the first time I've had this problem. The last time, it was solved by plugging the offending medium into a windows machine and doing it that way, but its not possible now.
labrat256