Claim Delete Fileds For Free

$ lsof /app grep deleted Will print all deleted files which are claiming disk space. You can just kill the process which is holding the reference of those files and get back your disk space. The command will also print the process id to help you kill the process. You can just kill command for that.

Available disk spaces does not increase after deleting files. When a file is deleted, the space used on the disk is not reclaimed until the file is truly erased. The trash (recycle bin on Windows) is actually a hidden folder located in each hard drive. To completely delete the file, another step must be performed.

Type the rm command, a space, and then the name of the file you want to delete. If the file is not in the current working directory, provide a path to the file's location. You can pass more than one filename to rm . Doing so deletes all of the specified files.

On Linux or Unix systems, deleting a file via rm or through a file manager application will unlink the file from the file system's directory structure; however, if the file is still open (in use by a running process) it will still be accessible to this process and will continue to occupy space on disk.

Files are usually moved to somewhere like ~/. local/share/Trash/files/ when trashed. The rm command on UNIX/Linux is comparable to del on DOS/Windows which also deletes and does not move files to the Recycle Bin.

The other answers are correct: If you delete a file, and space does not get freed, it's usually either because the file is still kept open, or there are other hardlinks to it.

$ lsof /app grep deleted Will print all deleted files which are claiming disk space. You can just kill the process which is holding the reference of those files and get back your disk space. The command will also print the process id to help you kill the process. You can just kill command for that.