Linux not showing the amount of free space even after I deleted 2gb worth of files....

[pillage2001]

Situation is, I have a drive which is already at 100% usage. I've tried deleting 2gb worth of files and yet it shows as 0 available space. I was wondering where did the extra space go to?

 

[Nothinman]

If the files were opened when you deleted them then they're not really gone yet.

 

[SSP]

This happened with kubuntu once. It was stuck in the .trash folder and didn't show up in the trash bin. If you see it there just delete it manually.

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: SSP
This happened with kubuntu once. It was stuck in the .trash folder and didn't show up in the trash bin. If you see it there just delete it manually.

Where's the trash folder located at?? I don't have xwindows on this thingy.

Nothinman, I deleted quite abit of files, I doubt anyone was using the files at that point of time.

 

[Nothinman]

Where's the trash folder located at?? I don't have xwindows on this thingy.

If you deleted them from the cli with rm then there's virtually 0 chance of them being in a trash can.

If you're sure that none were open when you deleted them just umount and remount the filesystem. If it's the root filesystem you'll have to reboot.

 

[pillage2001]

I used the rm -fr to remove them. I've tried rebooting it and it still shows up as 0bytes available.

 

[Nothinman]

Then you should probably run fsck on the filesystem and possibly even see if some other files appeared and started taking that space when you deleted the other ones.

 

[pillage2001]

It's instantenous. I can delete it now and won't see the free space at all. You're right on the fsck. Thing is, how do I initiate it to run on bootup? It's the / partition so I can't unmount and run it...

 

[Nothinman]

Do it from a LiveCD. There's probably a way to force the init scripts to do it for you but that would be distro-dependent and you haven't mentioned which one you're using.

 

[pillage2001]

I'm on debian. I notice you have it in your sig. I suppose you're a power user of debian? I don't have xwindows on this machine. It's purely in bash....

 

[Nothinman]

It looks like if you 'touch /forcefsck' it'll run one on bootup but I've never tried. And if you're using XFS then it won't help as fsck.xfs is a noop and you need to run xfs_repair instead. Even the Debian net-inst disc should have enough of a system on it to see the filesystem and run fsck on it if that doesn't work. I always have tons of Knoppix discs laying around so I never really worry about it.