i built a rpm package, which i figured out later that i wont be needing, so i deleted the rpm file and also the build package… put together they were abt 5.8 GB… but my system monitor shows that only 700MB of space is available… the 5.8 GB is not visible but its gone 
Did you erase it permanently or it goes on the recycle bin ?
What’s the result of this command :
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 15G 13G 704M 95% /
devtmpfs 1.3G 268K 1.3G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.3G 208K 1.3G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 5.5G 506M 4.7G 10% /home
/dev/sda1 30G 6.4G 23G 22% /windows/C
/dev/sda2 35G 4.3G 30G 13% /windows/D
/dev/sda3 35G 31G 4.0G 89% /windows/E
well i moved it to trash… but trash is empty
the file never moved into trash and it is not visible in the root
On 2011-04-15 16:06, Vidya89 wrote:
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> i built a rpm package, which i figured out later that i wont be needing,
> so i deleted the rpm file and also the build package… put together
> they were abt 5.8 GB… but my system monitor shows that only 700MB of
> space is available… the 5.8 GB is not visible but its gone
Use one of the tools that show you the space used by each directory. I use
mc. Others:
kdirstat
baobab
filelight
df
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On 04/15/2011 04:36 PM, Vidya89 wrote:
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> well i moved it to trash… but trash is empty
> the file never moved into trash and it is not visible in the root
did you look in /tmp or /var/tmp yet?
caution: don’t just start deleting in there…but, i don’t have time now
to tell you how to, safely…
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If you deleted it as another user (root, for example), it will be in that other user’s trash, not in your regular user’s trash.
@robin
installed mc
ther are a certain folders which are empty but the size doesnt agree
the lost+found folder has nothin in it but has a size of 16k
@denver n bruno
done… they are empty
I suppose dev/sda6 is your root folder and is at 95% of use…
Did emptying the /tmp folder fixed the problem or you still have 95% of sda6 used?
@daax
after deleting the rpm package, i tried to compile a kernel which aborted due to lack of mem
jus tried make clean and got back some memory…
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 15G 12G 2.5G 83% /
devtmpfs 1.3G 268K 1.3G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.3G 776K 1.3G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 5.5G 612M 4.6G 12% /home
/dev/sda1 30G 6.4G 23G 22% /windows/C
/dev/sda2 35G 4.3G 30G 13% /windows/D
/dev/sda3 35G 31G 4.0G 89% /windows/E
these are the files in temp (from wat has been said above, im scared to del the stuff in tmp )
sd-1000 tracker-vidya
gnome-system-monitor.vidya.2565807579 unique
hsperfdata_root virtual-vidya.AifLb7
.ICE-unix virtual-vidya.C5mRuc
keyring-CyqKxk virtual-vidya.GDgbRY
libstorage-sDAvRC virtual-vidya.L1raME
mc-root virtual-vidya.U9cgiH
orbit-root virtual-vidya.w6eRc3
orbit-vidya virtual-vidya.wZNuiD
pulse-8D4dzB3mIMp8 .X0-lock
tracker-root .X11-unix
used find / -size +30000 cmd and found the file in ./local/share/trash/files
i really dunno why my trash appeared empty
anyway thank u so much ppl 
btw is ther somethin like marking the thread as solved?
On 2011-04-15 18:06, Vidya89 wrote:
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> @robin
> installed mc
> ther are a certain folders which are empty but the size doesnt agree
> the lost+found folder has nothin in it but has a size of 16k
F9 - Command - show directory sIzes - wait.
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