# Pop OS - harddrive is full while only 25 percent are used **URL:** \ **Category:** Pop!\_OS\ **Created:** [February 15, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/pop-os-harddrive-is-full-while-only-25-percent-are-used/1403 "2022-02-15T17:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![myname707](https://community.learnlinux.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@myname707](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/myname707)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/pop-os-harddrive-is-full-while-only-25-percent-are-used/1403/1 "2022-02-15T17:48:43Z")
Hello, I hope I am correct here. I have a Thinkpad E15 with an 512 GB SSD in use with Pop!\_OS 20.04 LTS x86\_64. The SSD is full and I don’t know why. df -H shows a usage of the root of 409GB which equals 88% usage. /dev/mapper/data-root 495G 409G 61G 88% / Using a graphical tool like Filelight showes me 124 GiB of used space on / (109GiB in /home/ and some in /var/ and /usr/) the CL gives me similar results with: find / -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -shP {} 1\> ~/du-root-plus-one.list ; 104G /home 284M /opt 14M /etc 0 /sys 0 /dev 9,9G /media 1,3G /snap 263M /boot 16K /lost+found 4,0K /root 88K /tmp 4,0K /mnt 3,1G /var 0 /proc 4,0K /srv 4,0K /recovery 11G /usr 2,1M /run Both commands where done with no network shares mounted. Due to the mobile nature of a laptop the FS is encrypted. I also deleted all timeshift backups and finally disabled and deleted timeshift because the system froze due to a full harddrive. I also cleard the trashbin. What did I miss? I thought if space is not used it should be free - but I am obviously wrong somehow. Thanks a lot in advance! MyName ---
**Author:** ![myname707](https://community.learnlinux.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@myname707](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/myname707)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/pop-os-harddrive-is-full-while-only-25-percent-are-used/1403/2 "2022-02-19T10:29:32Z")
Hi, I found out that I have a lot of files in /root/.local/share/Trash/files via sudo baobab (found at [Disk space is missing - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/617756/disk-space-is-missing)) The next step is to find a way to delete them because sudo does not allow me to access atm. Edit: I booted from a USB-stick a linux lite, mounted the partition and went to terminal. I set a root password → sudo passed root went to the mount point → cd /media/linux/c5e… Checked if I am correct → ls -la went into the folder of concern → cd /root/.local/share/Trash → NO ACCESS logged in as root → su root second attempt → cd /root/.local/share/Trash check if I am correct → ls -la → yes, indeed - they look like multiple backups of the entire file system deleting the folders (d) recursively (r)–\> rm -rd 2022-02-\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ repeated it for all folders that I wanted to delete leaving root access → exit Problem solved - how can I change the title of the thread accordingly?