BleachBit reduces space for no reason

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Rochan Avlur

I ran the bleachbit program and ran the 'Free Disk Space'. I noticed that is started to fill up my hard Disk COMPLETELY (almost). I have currently lost 20 GB of space. I have 2 folders in my home directory. enter image description here

When I ls -l or ls inside either of the directories, It kind of freezes.

The funny thing is that it says the directory is 500 MB. When I do Shift + Del, It ran for about 10 hours and still said - ' Preparing to delete ~9,00,000 files ' I cannot rm -f anything. can somebody please help

Thanks,

Rochan

Andrew

BleachBit 1.2 fixes several problems with wiping free disk space including a way to prevent this, so I assume you are using an older version.

Now that you have this problem you just have to let rm -rf run. Linux file systems can take a very long time to delete many files, even if they are empty.

It may look like nothing is happening for a while, but you can verify the number of inodes is increasing with this command: watch df -i

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