How do you free up deleted disc space
Submitted by Git-R-Done on April 21, 2009 - 12:43pm
I just noticed that using filezilla to delete unneeded iso files does not add to the usable disc space. Is there some sort of command level defrag or something that free's up space?
Empty Trash bin?
Empty Trash bin?
Its empty. I just deleted
Its empty.
I just deleted 12gb worth of movies and only 1gb freed up. I deleted the files from filezilla
Try this
df -h
dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240
sync
df -h
rm -f 10gb
sync
df -h
If the expected doesn't happen something very strange is going on.
What tool are you using to
What tool are you using to determine available space?
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Kind of. How do I check
I am using df
The file manager in KDE says after I deleted 3 movies that I only have 1gb free. I deleted 12gb of movies.
Now I just deleted another movie in file manager and it says moving file to trash:/The Eye.iso but nothing seems to be happening.
Ok the file finished deleting and still only shows 1gb free. That is 17gb I have deleted.
Files were deleted from /videos2
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/320GBSata-320GBSataLV01 10095152 4515976 5066360 48% /
/dev/mapper/320GBSata-320GBSataLV03 288625712 189235004 84492740 70% /storage
/dev/sda1 101086 13677 82190 15% /boot
tmpfs 1029548 12 1029536 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/500gbSata1-500gbSata1 480717520 455225936 1072464 100% /storage/videos2
/dev/mapper/500gbSata2-500gbSata2 480717520 453000680 3297720 100% /storage/videos3
/dev/mapper/500gbSata3-500gbSata3 480717520 460619492 0 100% /storage/videos4
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 945935704 902670584 4204356 100% /storage/videos5