Probably of interest only to people using Ubuntu, or at least some flavour of Linux…<\/p>\n
Just solved the mystery of what was hogging the spare space on my Something like this happened once before, a year or more ago – but I don’t think I wrote it down last time, or if I did, I don’t know what I did with the description. So I thought this time I’d blog it for future reference (and in the hope it might also be useful to someone else). <\/p>\n I think<\/i> the wastebasket commands only look in Having found this directory, I wondered how the mysterious At the moment, I can’t quite think how either of those situations would have arisen in my case. But it doesn’t really matter, as long as I remember to check every now and again and delete any such debris. I’ll call upon the reminding powers of MyChores<\/a> :-)<\/p>\n I’ll also remind myself here that the System Monitor utility is a useful thing. System | Administration | System Monitor, and click on its File Systems tab for a summary of all the disks and their available space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ubuntu Hardy Heron, low-disc-space mystery solved: Hidden directory “.Trash-0”, untouched by “Empty deleted items”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/home<\/code> partition. <\/p>\n.Trash-0<\/code>. It had 500MB of old data in it, none of which was displayed by clicking on the “wastebasket” and none of which was being removed by “Empty deleted items”! But I was able to remove it by being root in nautilus (command-line sudo nautilus<\/code>.)<\/p>\n.Trash<\/code> (no suffix), which would explain why they weren’t accessing this. <\/p>\n-0<\/code> arose. A search for “.Trash-0” turned up a few threads. Some people said it can happen due to disk format incompatibility; others said not all utilities know how to delete properly. <\/p>\n