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