Deleting files does not increase amount of free space?

frznchckn · 12-17-2008, 07:12 PM

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and I deleted 10GB of class lectures by deleting the directory they were in. I expected my free space to increase by ~10GB but it remain unchanged!

I performed a hard reboot thinking that would help, but no avail!

Any thoughts?

I've looked at similar threads and I at least don't think I'm having the same problem. I run du and df and it definitely says I have 1.1GB left when I just deleted 10GB worth of files.

amani · 12-17-2008, 07:17 PM

empty Trash

Is that directory in the same / partition?

frznchckn · 12-17-2008, 08:12 PM

Okay, I thought there might be a trash (.Trash) dir but I can't find one.

ls /home/<username>/.Trash returns nada!

frznchckn · 12-17-2008, 08:20 PM

ugh, finally found it

~/.local/share/Trash

really? c'mon!

amani · 12-17-2008, 08:30 PM

open dolphin or konqueror...no desktop icon?

/home/<usrname>/.local/share/Trash

SlowCoder · 12-18-2008, 08:16 AM

I once had the same type of issue, where I removed about 18G of data, and it seemed to take the filesystem about 15 minutes to catch up before reporting the recovered space.

Total-MAdMaN · 12-19-2008, 06:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frznchckn

ugh, finally found it

~/.local/share/Trash

really? c'mon!

No different to find than searching through Windows "Documents and Settings" directory, which can have data in at least two different directories.