Missing Trash

[Colin Law]

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