What has possibly happened (and is quite common) is that at some point your external drive has been unmounted and files stored on the SD card instead. These files will now be hidden from view by the drive mounted at that location.
There are ways to find these files if you have SSH access (via Putty or other) to the Pi.
Method 1:
Unmount and eject the drive. Check to see if there are any files still in /home/pi/mnt/CamFiles
Method 2:
Use a bind mount to look inside the mountpoint on the SD cardThe directory /mnt/home/pi/mnt/CamFiles should be empty, but you may find old files in there that can be deleted or moved to /home/pi/mnt/CamFiles
Then unmount the bind mountand you should have your space back.
There are ways to find these files if you have SSH access (via Putty or other) to the Pi.
Method 1:
Unmount and eject the drive. Check to see if there are any files still in /home/pi/mnt/CamFiles
Method 2:
Use a bind mount to look inside the mountpoint on the SD card
Code:
sudo mount --bind / /mntls /mnt/home/pi/mnt/CamFilesThen unmount the bind mount
Code:
sudo umount /mntStatistics: Posted by rpdom — Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:44 am
