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Seacat17

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Registered: 2023-05-13

Posts: 95

7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

Guys, I desperately need a help of someone who knows how Wine and 7Z works.

I had a folder that was ~18GB big and I wanted to compress it because it was very compressable (down to 1.2GB) and I used 7ZIP for it thru Wine because 7ZIP is pretty good at it and it worked fine until today.

I checked this little checkbox. "Delete files after compression".

It compressed them and they disappeared, leaving the archive. But the space taken by those files remains taken and I deleted all the temp data and cache I could find but I still can't free this damn space.

What happened? Is there any way to see where did those files go?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

If you're using BTRFS you need to drop the associated snapshot/rollback information. Alternatively they migh've been moved to the thrash or so.

Also p7zip exists and all major Linux Archiver utilities have appropriate integration with it, might want to use that in the future.

Seacat17

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Registered: 2023-05-13

Posts: 95

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

If you're using BTRFS you need to drop the associated snapshot/rollback information. Alternatively they migh've been moved to the thrash or so.

Also p7zip exists and all major Linux Archiver utilities have appropriate integration with it, might want to use that in the future.

They're not in trash and I use EXT4.

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Seacat17

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Registered: 2023-05-13

Posts: 95

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

I did "df -h" and I don't understand what's going on. Look for yoursef.

[seacat17@seacat17-laptop ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             7.5G     0  7.5G   0% /dev
run             7.5G  1.8M  7.5G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K   13K  111K  11% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2  468G  441G  3.6G 100% /
tmpfs           7.5G     0  7.5G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7.5G  221M  7.3G   3% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1  510M   59M  452M  12% /boot
tmpfs           1.5G   80K  1.5G   1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs           1.5G   68K  1.5G   1% /run/user/973

Right now we need this string:

/dev/nvme0n1p2  468G  441G  3.6G 100% /

This is the partition I use. It is 468 gigs big. 441 are used. 3.6 are free. Where are other 23?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,694

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

Ext4 reserves some space.

Seacat17

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Registered: 2023-05-13

Posts: 95

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

Ext4 reserves some space.

23 gigs?...

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,694

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

it's a percentage, so could be, yes. I don't remember off hand, but 5% sounds right. It's changeable.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: 7ZIP (in Wine) deleted the files but they still take space

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext4#Reserved_blocks