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Partly it is a Curious question . ( Pretty stupid though)



I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64-Bit system with Unity as DE.



I was doing a routine to free -up some memory space by manual deletion of unwanted files (mostly songs and videos) and thereby right-clicking to verify for freed space.



But doing a right-Click Properties option in Root File system shows tremendous amount of Contents Memory 140.8 TB as follows



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My Ubuntu is installed on 50 GB partition with ext4 as format having only / and swap as OS installation in dual boot with Windows 7 .My Internal Hard Disk is 1TB only.



So what exactly is it showing and why is it pointing such huge memory. What are the reasons for that huge Memory show.



P.S.: Must be related to some Linux OS File System based Concept i haven't yet learned or looked into.



O/P of df -h



Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 49G 12G 36G 25% /
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 773M 860K 772M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.9G 784K 1.9G 1% /run/shm

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It is a known bug gnome. It doesn't only count files in the / filesystem, it also counts files mounted in other filesystems, including /proc, which contains a virtual file that represents all ram, which amounts to 128 TB on amd64.


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