Not gaining free space after deleting roms

ckp

i had all zip roms for snes in the snes folder. i deleted all of them in ssh and then over windows smb i copied over the unzipped files. the unzipped files had a smaller size in total than the zipped because this set had much fewer roms. however it seems my free space went way down after doing this (df -h) when i expected to actually have a little more free space?
any idea? now i'm nervous to replace some other zipped sets with unzipped roms.

jonnykesh

@ckp The deleted ROMs are probably in the Trash file. Use the built in file manager or some other method to navigate to /home/pi/.local/share/Trash/ Delete all files in files and info, then reboot. Hopefully that should free up the space.

ckp

that directory does not exist.

jonnykesh

@ckp Yeah. It does. Files with a. before are normally hidden. You have to enable show hidden files

ckp

it doesn't:
pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms $ ls -la /home/pi/.local/share
total 12
drwx------ 3 pi pi 4096 Jun 23 14:55 .
drwx------ 3 pi pi 4096 Jun 23 14:55 ..
drwx------ 2 pi pi 4096 Jun 23 14:55 mupen64plus
pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms $

Hyruleslink

@jonnykesh This got me curious. I just checked mine as well. The trash directory is not there and I do have hidden files shown. Perhaps this was an older mechanism that somehow is lingering on your build? Or maybe it has been moved to another location?

chipsnblip

running

ncdu /

from a terminal is a good way to graphically browse/track down where the files might be