Hard drive disk space completely disappeared

Chlorogenic · 2009-03-20 16:38:20

Hello. I run Arch Linux and Windows SP3 on a Lenovo Thinkpad R61. I decided to move some files (around 22GB) from my Linux partition to my Windows partition. However, due to some mounting problems I am having in Arch, I decided to use my Ubuntu Live CD for this purpose.
I moved the files to my Windows partition, then I selected the files on my Arch partition and pressed Delete. Now, the files are "gone", or should I say invisible?
The files are gone, neither Nautilus nor ls will find them. However, locate finds the files.
Nautilus claims I've got 559 MB free space, GParted claims I've got 4,28 GB free space, the Disk Usage Analyzer claims I've got 4,3 GB free space, df says I've used 70 GB out of 74 GB, and that I've got 339 MB free space.

My Linux partition is 74,66 GB, but my Disk Usage Analyzer says different. It claims on two different places that it is 74GB and 50GB.

I believe this problem might have been due to the lack of a working trash can on the Ubuntu live cd. I believe I should have used shift+delete instead, or removed them in Arch.

Well, is there any way to solve this?

byte · 2009-03-20 23:14:34

If you've used Nautilus for deleting the files, have a look in ~/.local/share/Trash.

Chlorogenic · 2009-03-21 17:41:35

Thanks, but I've already reinstalled Arch. I lost even more space, my harddrive got filled up and I couldn't boot into Arch due to GDM constantly crashing.

R00KIE · 2009-03-21 20:41:37

It can also be in the root of the partition where the files were in .Trash
Locate uses a database of the files you have/had on disk, only when it is rebuilt you will see the changes.
You can try do do

find / | grep part_of_the_name_of_one_file

but it will take a really good while.

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#1 2009-03-20 16:38:20

Hard drive disk space completely disappeared

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