Missing Trash

[Christopher A. Lindsey]

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 18:00 +0000, Colin Law wrote: 
> On 5 December 2010 17:07, Christopher A. Lindsey <CLindsey at garudallc.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 20:55 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> >> On 4 December 2010 20:10, Christopher A. Lindsey <CLindsey at garudallc.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm relatively new user.  So, go easy on me...
> >> >
> >> > I recently encountered a problem with my Ubuntu 10.10 system with regard
> >> > to the trash/file system.
> >> >
> >> > I setup sbackup to do daily backups and keep 10 days of backups.  I was
> >> > running out of disk space.  So, I copied the older backups off to
> >> > another machine.  I then attempted to delete them from my system.  As my
> >> > standard user account did not have adequate permissions I ran nautilus
> >> > as administrator.  I was able to delete the files, however, when I
> >> > attempted to go into trash to completely remove them I received an error
> >> > and no files were displayed.  I did not capture the error message as I
> >> > was to quick to click to try again.  I restarted the machine and
> >> > reloaded nautilus as administrator and was able to access the trash.
> >> > However, no files are listed.  But, the space that was allocated has not
> >> > been freed.
> >>
> >> If they are of substantial size, which I am guessing they may be as
> >> the purpose of the exercise was to free up disk space, you could run
> >> Applications > Accessories > Disk Usage Analyser, scan initially home,
> >> and if necessary the whole machine, and look for a folder that is much
> >> bigger than it should be.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> > Hi Colin,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I have tried that and I just tried it again.
> > Here are the results:
> >
> > Total Filesystem capacity: 35.3 GB (used: 32.3 GB available: 3.0 GB )
> >
> > Results of Scan Filesystem:
> > Folder "/" Usage 100% Size 10.6 GB Contents 21 items
> >
> > So, it appears to me that the space has not been released but it is not
> > assigned to any files.
> 
> 
> What does
> df
> show?  Post the whole output please.
> 
> Colin
> 
Hi Colin,

Here you go:
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             36993772  33833760   1280812  97% /
none                    248352       260    248092   1% /dev
none                    253952       688    253264   1% /dev/shm
none                    253952       692    253260   1% /var/run
none                    253952         0    253952   0% /var/lock

Thanks,
Chris
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