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Hi everybody, how are you?
I foolishly tried downloadlading a PC Game from a torrent website as a torrent without knowing that it would take up 32GB Space on my hard disk. As soon as I put this torrent for downloading on transmission torrent client I saw that it ate up 32 to 33GB Disk Space and immediately deleted the torrent that was downloading and the files that got created on my hard disk related to that. Please tell me how I can get back 32GB to 33GB Disk Space on my computer?
If you deleted everything that was created you should presumably have the space back. How obvious that is depends on the file system - btrfs for instance does not show space correctly if you just use df. As a first step I would suggest sharing the results of
inxi -zv8
Please take care to format the results properly (for example by pasting into the reply, highlighting the output, and clicking </> on the reply toolbar) or see suggestions here: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as preformatted text
You can also use tools like filelight to search for large files left over.
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If using btrfs as a filesystem, the space gets reclaimed in the background.
If you want to use the free space much quicker run this:
sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=50 -musage=50 /
If you are using Timeshift, you may need to delete snapshots first. (Or snapshots of any kind.)
If that doesn’t do enough, run:
sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=75 -musage=75 /
These will start to take much longer as you go from numbers like 50 to 90, and over 90 will seem more like a full balance.
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