what fs? btrfs et al have features that could be holding on to the content. what sort of backups? BackupPC et al keep hardlinks to everything. you can explore what's allocated with du.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120521/1c5e850f/attachment.html>