Deleted files not deleted

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:30:12PM -0700, Johny Why wrote:
> Sorry if wrong place to post.
> 
> On a new Gnome install 15.04, my data hard drive (not the gnome install
> drive) showed about 5GB free.
> 
> then i deleted about 10GB. Now my hd is showing only 3GB free!

Looks like the files have been moved to Trash.

> i browsed to Trash, and i could not browse to Trash-- got error described
> here:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/13783...-showing-files
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/50717...-there-as-root

Both are broken links and we cannot see what error you're talking
about.

> After updating gnome, i am not getting error when i browse to trash. But,
> still only 3GB free.

Have you emptied the Trash?

> Since i deleted over 10GB, this cannot be correct. How can i fix?

Find what's taking up the disk space and delete it.

Baobab can be helpful here.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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