Ok so I installed an update and it messed my mysql control so I needed to remake the symbolic link to get the control working. I tried doing the ln -s mysql-5(lots of crap) mysql to create the link. Anyway it didn't work (probably because I left a / at the end of the link when I made it). So I was trying to figure out what I had done so I did a cp of the mysql-5(lots of crap) to mysql but I forgot to delete the symbolic link before doing so. After about 5 minutes of working and 10GB of disk space the copy was complete. However when I did a ls -l I found the mysql copy I made was listed as a symbolic link still and was about 4k in size. I still have 10GB of space missing from my hard drive but I don't seem to have any way to delete the copied files I made as what should have been the folder points to the folder I copied and I'm guessing nothing is pointing to the copied data. I ended up fixing the symbolic link to my original data and mysql is working fine (running moodle) , now I'm wondering how I can delete the copy I made of the folder which seems to have nothing pointing at it.