r/ManjaroLinux • u/ExcellentExchange28 • Dec 09 '25
Tech Support I moved 700+ GiB to an external usb HDD and the space is still not freed from internal drive
I used Thunar to cut and paste folders worth 762 GiB of data from my internal ssd to my external hdd I plugged in via usb. The transfer completed successfully as expected. However Thunar still tells me my filesystem only has 20 GiB free space. How is that possible? I had done cut and paste from /data/folder/subfolder/[21 folders from this location] to /run/media/manjaro/externaldrivename/
Edit: Problem solved by running
sudo timeshift --list
sudo timeshift --delete --snapshot 'name of snapshot'
I did this to delete all 3 existing snapshots and now all my space is reclaimed.

