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FC 17 delete large from but not free up disk space

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – HI I have a FC 17 daul boot with win7 I tried to delete 4G Image file which was located in my NTFS disk by right clicking on it and deleteing it in fedora. it disapear but disk space left the same as before How can I return my lost space? Thanks (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 01/29/2013

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I have moved to Ubuntu 12 and chosen to use full disk encryption (encrypted LVM).

So now I'm wondering: should I shred (eg: with secure-delete package, srm) the free disk space to remove any remnant windows might have left?

Is free disk space treated any different?

How to mount compressed disk image?

Here is my situation: I have hard drive with (fresh) OS installation. I made compressed image of that disk to another disk.

How to make compressed disk image to file (on another disk): sudo cat /dev/sdb | gzip > disk.img.gz (sdb is source)

If free space is zero-ed, compression is much better.

I have a 80 GB HDD without any partitions. One day I realised that I have lost most of my free disk space. I discovered that /var/log/kern.log.1 takes up 25 GB of space and there is no delete option for that file.

Here is a screenshot of the problem.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B39N7lgxQwcIZ09aWFVBcklrWWc

I am new to Ubuntu/Linux. Please Help. Thank You.

agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each directory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access times a long time ago. In other words, agedu is a tool you might use to help you free up disk space.

Possible Duplicate: How do I find the amount of free space on my hard drive?

In Nautilus, I can easily see the physical size (total capacity, free space, used space) of any mounted disk, e.g.

Our present OpenBSD server needed more disk space, so we replaced the 13 GB disk (it's pretty old too) with 150GB. An image was made and then restored on the new disk. So far, so good. The new disk has a 13GB OpenBSD partition, it boots and works as before.

Next order of business: use the other 135 GB.

I am using Windows 7 and have been trying to retrieve disk space, but when I run Disk Cleanup the Temporary Internet files (18.1KB) and System archived Windows Error Report (267KB) will not delete. It goes through the process as if they are being deleted, but my disk space remains the same; I then go back to Disk Cleanup to see if they have been removed and they are still there.

Hi, Horde is a mystery with its disk space consumption...or is it something else?

The 'disk space usage' panel shows 45.74 mg being used by mail; when i click on 'mail' on the 'disk space usage' panel, the the in, out, send, trash boxes for all mail id's have far less than the amount of disk space usage noted on the above mentioned panel.

Introduction When you are running out of disk space, you need to concentrate on the biggest files and folders on your disk, so you can get space quickly. The best way, is to list the first 10 folders, then go inside some of them, and find files you may or can delete, and get new free space. Commands needed There is not a single command in Linux to help us with this task, but we will use du, sort