Why is the hard drive still full after deleting some files?

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Published on 2013-10-26T13:22:11Z Indexed on 2013/11/05 4:14 UTC
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I have a server running Ubuntu Server 12.xx. Today some services stopped and I found some messages about full disk, so I ran df -h:

Filesystem                Size  Used   Disp Use% 
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root   455G   434G     0 100% /
udev                      1,7G   4,0K  1,7G   1% /dev
tmpfs                     689M   4,2M  685M   1% /run
none                      5,0M      0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
none                      1,7G      0  1,7G   0% /run/shm
/dev/sda1                 228M    51M  166M  24% /boot
overflow                  1,0M      0  1,0M   0% /tmp

I tried to delete some files remotely from a Windows computer by right-clicking and choosing "delete", but the hard drive remained full.

Is there a Trash folder in Ubuntu Server? What could be happening?

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