Solved Beginner's question about a disk space

[Trynna3]

I have a 1TB nvme and there is Zorin OS, with two VMs of Win11, each having just over 100GB permanent size.
I don't have any photos, or videos, or music in the system that would occupy this space.
Mostly the software that came with Zorin, then installed Virtualbox and minor things, unlikely blowing up the system to over 600GB space. Two .iso files making up to 11GB also don't take that much space.

What is taking that space? I don't have timeshift activated yet, only made a clone of the whole system. I had additional VMs, but those were deleted, only those 2x Win11 show in the respective folder. I have had a look in the home folder, nothing significant there.

 

[Trynna3]

Cancel that.
The idiot didn't check the bin. Like trash.
And I don't see how to delete this topic even without any other comments.

This is after emptying the bin:

 

[wizardfromoz]

@Trynna3 I can delete this thread for you, but I would just as soon leave it here, let me know.

I like our friendly green and white Solved tag, and it may help people with searches, who can look at it and go palm to forehead "That's what I did not check!".

Wizard

 

[Brickwizard]

This is after emptying the bin:

OOPs these things are easily forgotten

 

[Trynna3]

@Trynna3 I can delete this thread for you, but I would just as soon leave it here, let me know.

I like our friendly green and white Solved tag, and it may help people with searches, who can look at it and go palm to forehead "That's what I did not check!".

Wizard

I don't mind, really. It's up to you. If it helps somebody...

 

[osprey]

Trynna3 wrote:

What is taking that space?

As an addendum to the concern about determining space on a disk, there are quite a number of programs specialised for accomplishing this task. These include:
baobab (a GUI program)
ncdu (an ncurses program)
dust (a command line program in the du-dust package)
du (a command line program)

Any of the above programs would show all the details of disk usage which you mentioned without missing anything if used as intended. The GParted program, on the other hand, specialises in partitioning which doesn't have the fine-grained capacity to find the sort of details sought to reveal what was using disk space. There's a bit of learning for each of the above programs, but that's always the way with these things and is usually worth the time and effort I think. YMMV.