How to recover lost disk space in Ubuntu

Posted on Thursday, Jul 17, 2008 by webmaster

This error appears to be related to deleting files outside of Ubuntu, and has several Bug listings. If the free disk space on your USB drive is being reported as less than actual, try this:

Unmount the volume (if the device is a Sony PSP or other device where the USB port must be enabled, leave the port enabled)

            sudo umount /media/disk

Run Dosfsck

            sudo dosfsck -a /dev/sda1

Turn the device off then on again

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