File and printer sharing problem

[painterh]

Well, here's an update. I deleted the contents of those 2 files (as root), and when I checked the "show hidden files and folders", there was now a back-up of those same files with the same amount of disk usage. I next deleted those 2 back-ups as (as root), and now when I open disk usage analyzer, it appears those files are gone. However when I look at the free space on the drive, it hasn't changed. I can't understand how the files could be gone and yet not free up any space. Am I missing something here?

[painterh]

Just another question here. Is there any other way to check for hard drive corruption/problems besides "fsck"? I'm totally confused after going through the "man fsck file ". I can't figure how to tell fsck what I want to check.

[SaddleTramp]

Just another question here. Is there any other way to check for hard drive corruption/problems besides "fsck"? I'm totally confused after going through the "man fsck file ". I can't figure how to tell fsck what I want to check.

I've been trying to figure that out too...done a "grunch" of Googlin' and can't find a decent How-to there yet either...but still Googlin'...as for deleting files and still no change in HDD space, I read somewhere (while Googlin' for fsck) that when a file is deleted, it's actually still there...the space it inhabits is just flagged as 'usuable'...looking more into that one too...that's one kickass can of worms ya got opened up there painter

[DaddyX3]

OK, first .... When you delete the files with root permissions (ie: using gksudo nautilus) the files go into the roots trash can that will then need to be emptied. This is why I like running terminal commands to get rid of things. So, the cure is to go back in to nautilus as root and go to your trash can (in the navigation pane on the left at the bottom) and empty it - this will free up your space on your drive again

To address your posts about reconfiguring SAMBA ... I have no idea. This is why I first went to the XP computer here at work and checked it for errors (I trust *nix more than I do Windows). I removed that computer from the network (via control panel) and then re-set it up again making it part of the 'WORKGROUP' network and then everything just fell into place. I have found some how-to's on the net (via-google) about SAMBA, but they are all old. Now that SAMBA is part of the Ubuntu release there is not as much need to know any more. Good Luck!

[painterh]

Daddyx3;
I have emptied the root trash. I use "Quickstart" and it has a cleanup function that empties the root trash folder. I have gone back into the root nautilus and made sure the trash is gone. The files that were deleted are also gone. The disk space, however is still unavailable. When I boot into Windows and do "properties of my Linux drive, it reports is as 1.6 GBs free space.

[SaddleTramp]

Ok..ya'll take a look at this & see whatcha think...I called up the man page in terminal and it's there (installed with Ubuntu by default)... may be the answer and is sure enuff got me readin' about now for future use...

edit: it might would help if I put the link in huh ?!?!

http://www.techthrob.com/tech/securedelete.php

[painterh]

Hey again;
I checked the link for "shred" you posted. I tried to use it and it gave me a "no such file or directory. I used this command "sudo shred [5] /var/log/daemon.log.0". As far as I understand this is the way it is used. I will play with it some more, but I'm not optimistic.

[DaddyX3]

I don't know what you have installed, but it seems to me that you must have installed a back-up program or something that is consuming all your space. Do you have acronis / simple backup restore running backups often? I say this because your using what the rest of us are, but you are getting worked in a way that we aren't.

[SaddleTramp]

Hey again;
I checked the link for "shred" you posted. I tried to use it and it gave me a "no such file or directory. I used this command "sudo shred [5] /var/log/daemon.log.0". As far as I understand this is the way it is used. I will play with it some more, but I'm not optimistic.

painter..I prolly should of read a little more of it before posting...it's a good command...but I believe it's meant to be used to delete the file the first time...don't see that there's a way it can pick up on any "ghost" files...sorry bud ...I was skimmin' thru Google as quick as I could to try and find something that'll work...

[SaddleTramp]

Daddyx3;
I have emptied the root trash. I use "Quickstart" and it has a cleanup function that empties the root trash folder. I have gone back into the root nautilus and made sure the trash is gone. The files that were deleted are also gone. The disk space, however is still unavailable. When I boot into Windows and do "properties of my Linux drive, it reports is as 1.6 GBs free space.

Have you tried lookin' at the drive thru the 'Partition Manager' from Ultimate??? Maybe..by some slim off-chance..Windows is reporting it wrong...