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Originally Posted by ComputerCritic
I am using OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 on a Dell Inspiron 1545.
I previously had a 12GB storage volume in Libvirt. Then, I deleted it. Shouldn't that have freed 12GB of space? But the room in the storage volume is only 8.9GB. The filesystem is Btrfs. Is there a disk cleanup tool like Windows has? How do I free space? Maybe the disk is fragmented. You would think that deleting a 12GB volume would free 12GB of space. But it doesn't?
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No, you wouldn't think that if you did a small amount of research.
Until you stop whatever process is keeping that file open, the space won't reflect a change. Common in every operating system. Your disk is not fragmented, and never needs a 'cleanup' like Windows.