What is the purpose of `.Trash-1000` in my external hard drive and how can I clean it up?












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I have a Western Digital external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. In Lubuntu, under its top directory:



$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h

0   temp

7.5K    $RECYCLE.BIN

25K System Volume Information

690M    dir1

1.5G    dir2

3.2G    dir3

15G     dir4

71G     dir5

98G     dir6

522G    dir7


roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in use.



But 



$ sudo df -h

Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb1            932G  880G   53G  95% /media/t/My Passport


and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.



So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?



Thanks.




I just found a hidden directory .Trash-1000 under the top directory. 



$ du -h -d 0 .Trash-1000 

166G    .Trash-1000



$ ls .Trash-1000/

expunged  files  info


What is the purpose of .Trash-1000?



How shall I clean it up? Can I simply rm -r .Trash-1000?






hard-disk disk-usage







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  • So you already see it's different...

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    13 mins ago











  • That's NTFS, so that's probably the "Recycle Bin" from Windows... Not sure whether it's safe to remove it or that might affect how the FS behaves on Windows... (Maybe Superuser SE might be more useful to answer that.)

    – filbranden
    6 mins ago
















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I have a Western Digital external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. In Lubuntu, under its top directory:



$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h

0   temp

7.5K    $RECYCLE.BIN

25K System Volume Information

690M    dir1

1.5G    dir2

3.2G    dir3

15G     dir4

71G     dir5

98G     dir6

522G    dir7


roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in use.



But 



$ sudo df -h

Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb1            932G  880G   53G  95% /media/t/My Passport


and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.



So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?



Thanks.




I just found a hidden directory .Trash-1000 under the top directory. 



$ du -h -d 0 .Trash-1000 

166G    .Trash-1000



$ ls .Trash-1000/

expunged  files  info


What is the purpose of .Trash-1000?



How shall I clean it up? Can I simply rm -r .Trash-1000?






hard-disk disk-usage







share|improve this question

























  • So you already see it's different...

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    13 mins ago











  • That's NTFS, so that's probably the "Recycle Bin" from Windows... Not sure whether it's safe to remove it or that might affect how the FS behaves on Windows... (Maybe Superuser SE might be more useful to answer that.)

    – filbranden
    6 mins ago














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I have a Western Digital external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. In Lubuntu, under its top directory:



$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h

0   temp

7.5K    $RECYCLE.BIN

25K System Volume Information

690M    dir1

1.5G    dir2

3.2G    dir3

15G     dir4

71G     dir5

98G     dir6

522G    dir7


roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in use.



But 



$ sudo df -h

Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb1            932G  880G   53G  95% /media/t/My Passport


and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.



So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?



Thanks.




I just found a hidden directory .Trash-1000 under the top directory. 



$ du -h -d 0 .Trash-1000 

166G    .Trash-1000



$ ls .Trash-1000/

expunged  files  info


What is the purpose of .Trash-1000?



How shall I clean it up? Can I simply rm -r .Trash-1000?






hard-disk disk-usage







share|improve this question
















I have a Western Digital external hard drive with one partition and a NTFS filesystem. In Lubuntu, under its top directory:



$ sudo du -d 0 -h * | sort -h

0   temp

7.5K    $RECYCLE.BIN

25K System Volume Information

690M    dir1

1.5G    dir2

3.2G    dir3

15G     dir4

71G     dir5

98G     dir6

522G    dir7


roughly the drive has 0.7+1.5+3.2+15+71+98+522 = 711.4 G in use.



But 



$ sudo df -h

Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb1            932G  880G   53G  95% /media/t/My Passport


and gparted shows the hard drive has 931.48GiB in Size, 879.47GiB Used, and 52.01GiB Unused.



So why do the three ways give different results? Why does the first way give very different result from the the other two in particular?



Thanks.




I just found a hidden directory .Trash-1000 under the top directory. 



$ du -h -d 0 .Trash-1000 

166G    .Trash-1000



$ ls .Trash-1000/

expunged  files  info


What is the purpose of .Trash-1000?



How shall I clean it up? Can I simply rm -r .Trash-1000?






hard-disk disk-usage




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  • So you already see it's different...

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    13 mins ago











  • That's NTFS, so that's probably the "Recycle Bin" from Windows... Not sure whether it's safe to remove it or that might affect how the FS behaves on Windows... (Maybe Superuser SE might be more useful to answer that.)

    – filbranden
    6 mins ago



















  • So you already see it's different...

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    13 mins ago











  • That's NTFS, so that's probably the "Recycle Bin" from Windows... Not sure whether it's safe to remove it or that might affect how the FS behaves on Windows... (Maybe Superuser SE might be more useful to answer that.)

    – filbranden
    6 mins ago

















So you already see it's different...

– 炸鱼薯条德里克
13 mins ago





So you already see it's different...

– 炸鱼薯条德里克
13 mins ago













That's NTFS, so that's probably the "Recycle Bin" from Windows... Not sure whether it's safe to remove it or that might affect how the FS behaves on Windows... (Maybe Superuser SE might be more useful to answer that.)

– filbranden
6 mins ago





That's NTFS, so that's probably the "Recycle Bin" from Windows... Not sure whether it's safe to remove it or that might affect how the FS behaves on Windows... (Maybe Superuser SE might be more useful to answer that.)

– filbranden
6 mins ago










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