Hard drive showed incorrect free space

[martyguma]

Hi! I have problem with my hard drive on Debian. I connected my hard drive as a local drive (NFS) in to Mac OS. Later i deleted some files on that hard drive from my mac but the free space didnt change. It looks like these files moved in to trash or something but i dont know where is it.

[oz]

Hello and welcome!

Trash usually goes into a hidden folder, such as .Trash

Set your file manager to also view hidden files/folders then navigate to it, or use ls -a from the command line to see a listing of all files/folders, including the hidden ones.

[martyguma]

I use just command line. I dont have anything called .Trash in user folder and in root folder too.

[oz]

It might be at: /home/user_name/.local/share/Trash

[reed9]

ncdu is a handy ncurses disk usage viewer that might help locate what's filling up your harddrive.

Debian -- Package Search Results -- ncdu
NCurses Disk Usage

[PoopNoodle]

You could try this:
find <path> -size +10000k -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lh

Assuming your running the command as root. Otherwise you might get some permission denied errors. It might help to narrow the results by entering the absolute path of where you want to look as well. Otherwise / is just gonna show the entire disk.

[Mudgen]

If you deleted files that were currently open by a process, the space will not be released until the process closes the file. You may be able to find the culprit(s) with fuser and/or lsof. If not, a reboot will release the space since all processes will be shut down and all file handles released.

The other common culprit for inexplicable disk usage is files in a folder used as a mount point. The files in the physical folder will be hidden until the filesystem mounted on the folder is unmounted.