External drive with wrong used space being reported by df -h

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Hi there,

Would appreciate very much for any help, if possible.

I have an external SSD drive (Sandisk Extreme 500 GB) on which I had a folder with more than 100 GB. So, I deleted this folder, but its used space is being wrongly reported.

The system says that the used space on this drive is around 100 GB more than I expected (it displays 418 GB).

And also df -h reports this wrong total used space, while Nautilus, for example, reports the correct used space if I select all files on drive and go to properties (308 GB).

Any idea about what is happening, guys?

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have you set hidden files to be shown in the file manager ?

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Yes.

There’s only 1 hidden folder (.Trash-1000), but this has only a few kb.

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I was contemplating that there are those 100 GB inside the trash. Maybe you have some pieces of screenshots to elaborate on the problem?

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Many thanks for your help.

So, I can´t imagine how could I illustrate this with screenshots. :frowning:

But, for example. I am displaying hidden folders inside that drive, through Nautilus. If I select all the folders there, including that very small .Trash-1000, I get a total used of 308 GB.

And at terminal I get 418 GB used for that same place, with df -h.

So, there’s around 110 GB “lost”. Also, I could not fine large files inside .Trash-1000, just a couple of very small ones.

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no clue what ist happening,
just an idea,
delete that .trash folder,
unmount the drive an put it back again
maybe things have changed by then

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Great! Thank you so much for your idea. Now it worked. :slight_smile:

I just don’t understand what happened.

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I guess that because of the USB character of this drive, write processes are not

closed until the safe removal of the device

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Understood. :slight_smile:

Thank you very much.

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