[SOLVED] where did hard drive space go?

**stewacide** · October 6th, 2008

For some reason my drive is reporting 51GB of used space, but only 29GB of files? What gives?

There's nothing in my trash. And there are no other drives attached.

**Meow27** · October 6th, 2008

are you using vmware server or some other VM software? they somtimes clog up hard disk space

**tuxxy** · October 6th, 2008

Nothing in your user trash but how about other users or roots trash?

Run the following command in terminal and wait for the output, it will give you location of trash dirs

Code:

sudo find / -type d -iname *Trash* | grep Trash

Then navigate to them using nautilus example to root trash is below

Code:

sudo nautilus /root/.local/share/Trash/

Also sometimes you may have trouble deleting files using nautilus, if so you could run this command but be sure you dont need anything in your trash!

Code:

sudo rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/files

Also df is much better than disk analyzer for correct disk usage

Code:

df

**stewacide** · October 7th, 2008

If I start nautilus with sudo and go to the root trash folder nautilus hangs and says it can't read the contents or something like that, so I assume that's the problem. Will try from the command line...

edit -- Awesome, 'sudo rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/files' did it! Thanx!