I got this problem when I try to back up my data from my laptop today. Suddenly, I got not enough space message. FYI, my external Hard disk is Maxtor Personal One Touch 100GB.
So, I checked the hard disk space left.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ cd /media
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 Maxtor sda1 sda2
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ df -h Maxtor/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 94G 93G 367M 100% /media/Maxtor
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$
Then I started deleting few gigabyte of my files to free up the space. I surprised because there was no change in Free Hard disk space (still 367M) at all. After searching for a few minutes with File Browser, finally I found out the problem which is a ‘Trash Bin‘ inside my Maxtor.
I though the Trash Bin is only one. Is it the default of Ubuntu? Don’t know yet.
I haven’t looking for the answer. Next time, may be.
Well, then I opened the .Trash-taufanlubis (trash bin directory), delete all the files inside.
Check the result.
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ df -h Maxtor/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 94G 61G 33G 66% /media/Maxtor
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$
I got my space back.
Is your HD partitioned in NTFS, or FAT32. Did you format the initial partition?, if so, please tell me how?.
That’s hard disk when I still use dual boot at my laptop.
I have 120GB HD so I divided into 4 partitions:
- 10GB NTFS for WinXP (I don’t use much application).
- 20GB ext3 for Ubuntu
- 1 GB for swapfile
- 89GB NTFS for data (so, I can use both, for XP and Ubuntu).
If you use dual boot, the best make partition using XP. Because, anytime you have trouble with your system, you only need to focus on certain partition.
Now, I don’t have dual boot in my laptop anymore.
So, I just use ext3 format (linux) format. Any application that need Win*, I run on XP in Virtual Box.
My external hard disk use NTSF format. If you use Ubuntu Feisty up, it’s recognized already.
Just deleting files do not free space at the Hard Disk.
This happens because the file is in fact transferred to the Recycle Bin, still there, using space.
Windows do this because you may change your mind later and retrieve the file back.
If you are pretty sure you don’t want the file anymore and want to free space in the harddisk, you need to clean up the Recycle Bin.
There is an option at the Recycle Bin tag, to avoid deleted files to go to Recycle Bin and be erased immediately.
When deleting huge files to free space, temporarily activate this option, but be careful with what you delete…
Ok, I know you are not using Windows… hehe, but the info worth for the ones running William Gates’s never-ending-fix platform.
Cheers
There is an option at the Recycle Bin tag, to avoid deleted files to go to Recycle Bin and be erased immediately.
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