On 03/08/2017 09:28 PM, Benderthe.evilrobot wrote:

"Jon Elson" wrote in message ...
Phoena Greene wrote:



"Benderthe.evilrobot" wrote in
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Downloading from FTP with Filezilla; The HDD got full so I transferred as
many files as possible to 3x 32Gb USB sticks - The sticks are showing
that they now contain around 29.5Gb, but the free space on the HDD is
only showing about 5Gb - I did try emptying the trash folder, but no
result there.

Probably if the transfer fails, it doesn't remove the files from the source.
It wants to make SURE the files on the stick are safe before removing the
old ones. That makes good sense!

Near as I can tell; its a file size issue - and probably the NTFS USB stick causing the mischief.
did you unmount the usb stick manually as root,
or sync, so the stuff got actually written out?

They had an issue once when the files got damaged when you just unplugged the stick.
It was related to how their drive cache works. Maybe no one ever
figured out how to fix it. They do tend to add layers of script and candy to obfuscate those issues.

check dmesg for kernel warnings/errors
(not the file, type dmesg on the bash prompt)