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?










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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?










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

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
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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?










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?







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

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    5 mins ago



















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

    – 炸鱼薯条德里克
    5 mins ago

















So you already see it's different...

– 炸鱼薯条德里克
5 mins ago





So you already see it's different...

– 炸鱼薯条德里克
5 mins ago










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