Ubuntu and NTFS drive.

[IamDavid]

I have r\w access and have no problems. However when I delete a file it will disappear but the space won't free up..

Any ideas?

 

[nweaver]

hitting the "recycle" bin I would guess. using the GUI? Try an rm -rf on that bad boy (be careful with that command) and see what happens.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: nweaver
hitting the "recycle" bin I would guess. using the GUI? Try an rm -rf on that bad boy (be careful with that command) and see what happens.

Did the recycling bin of course. What does that command do?

 

[Nothinman]

I have r\w access and have no problems. However when I delete a file it will disappear but the space won't free up..

Apparently you do have problems. How did you get r/w access to your NTFS filesystem, there's multiple ways to do it and not all of them are equal.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I have r\w access and have no problems. However when I delete a file it will disappear but the space won't free up..

Apparently you do have problems. How did you get r/w access to your NTFS filesystem, there's multiple ways to do it and not all of them are equal.

ntfs-config 0.5.5

 

[Nothinman]

OK, it looks like ntfs-config is just a tool for setting up ntfs-3g which is supposed to work fairly well, I know some people that use it and I don't remember seeing them complaining about what you're seeing. Have you run chkdsk on the volume from Windows?

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
OK, it looks like ntfs-config is just a tool for setting up ntfs-3g which is supposed to work fairly well, I know some people that use it and I don't remember seeing them complaining about what you're seeing. Have you run chkdsk on the volume from Windows?

I got rid of Windows a while ago. Any way to convert the drive to a *nix file system without loosing the data?

Thanks for the help Nothinman.

 

[Nothinman]

I got rid of Windows a while ago. Any way to convert the drive to a *nix file system without loosing the data?

Well there's no fsck for NTFS that I know of so you're probably screwed. As for converting the filesystem, no there's nothing that I know of other than a good old backup/restore.

 

[IamDavid]

I started cutting and pasting the files to another drive and it frees up the space on the drive... Very strange.

 

[drag]

I got rid of Windows a while ago. Any way to convert the drive to a *nix file system without loosing the data?

One effective way:
backup data to non-ntfs volume, then copy it back after you re-formatted it.

This tool is helpfull for making dvd backups:
http://ds9a.nl/splitpipe/

tar cz /home | splitpipe -s dvd -o 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/stdin'

the z in tar makes it compressed. If your dealing with media files they are usually already very compressed so z will just slow things down without saving any space.

Otherwise with many many gigs of disk space it can be a huge pain to go from one FS to another.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I got rid of Windows a while ago. Any way to convert the drive to a *nix file system without loosing the data?

if you are no longer using Windows, then there isn't much point in maintaining drives in the ntfs format. the easiest way to 'convert' is to get another hard drive, format it to ext2 or ext3, and copy all of your files over from the ntfs volume