disk is supposed to be empty, after i moved all the files from it, some space is still taken | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

marble hill Apr 27, 2025, 7:42 PM

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it shows its empty, io have hidden files visible and nothing is on the trash bin, i moved all the folders and files to a different drive since i want to format this one, did something get stuck during moving?

tender lynx Apr 27, 2025, 9:21 PM

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marble hill it shows its empty, io have hidden files visible and nothing is on the trash bin...

Likely this https://askubuntu.com/a/131551/300665

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New ext4 partition and used space

I have a fresh ext4 partition, which means I just formated it with mkfs.ext4 -m 0.1 /dev/mapper/abak-home, and there's already 27G space used. Setting reserved root space (-m) to 0 didn't have any ...

marble hill Apr 27, 2025, 9:40 PM

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its ntfs but sure, thank you!!

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apparently it qwas nothing buty a visual bug, since no data got lost

tender lynx Apr 27, 2025, 9:42 PM

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In Windows, I am not sure what would use up that space

peak idol Apr 27, 2025, 9:57 PM

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might have been a swap or hibernate file if that drive ever had Windows on it

#disk is supposed to be empty, after i moved all the files from it, some space is still taken