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**Snowhog** · Feb 23, 2023, 11:11 AM

What is actually in /home/auie/VirtualBox VMs 'right now'?

**Schwarzer Kater** · Feb 23, 2023, 11:46 AM

So could you post the output of ls -lh ~/VirtualBox\ VMs then?

PS: or if you have exa installed we can see the whole directory tree within "VirtualBox VMs" at once with
exa -lgbhT ~/VirtualBox\ VMs

**Snowhog** · Feb 23, 2023, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by Schwarzer Kater View Post

if you have exa installed

Sweet! Nice replacement for ls!

**Schwarzer Kater** · Feb 23, 2023, 02:47 PM

Originally posted by Snowhog View Post

Sweet! Nice replacement for ls!

Snowhog :
Really off topic, sorry!

But if you have not used exa before, installed it and liked it - consider putting something like the following into your .bash_aliases:

Code:

# ls replacement
alias ls='exa -F --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias la='exa -aF --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias ll='exa -lFgbh --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias lla='exa -alFgbh --color=auto --group-directories-first'

It is good to have no double entries for e.g. "ll" in your .bashrc (comment them out there) - Canonical/Ubuntu puts some aliases in the .bashrc by default.

And a bit more on topic:

exa with the -T flag shows a tree view (for what I gave an example in my post above) - this can be helpful if one cannot find a certain directory or file but knows where it should be, like it seems to be the case for nicrnicr (only useful if the directory structure is not too deep, of course).

To locate the directory you are looking for you could also simply:

Code:

cd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs
find -iname *lubuntu*

The primary task is to find the directory/file first:

Originally posted by nicrnicr View Post

[…] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden

- which means "file or directory not found".
Deleting it should be easy.

**nicrnicr** · Feb 24, 2023, 03:18 AM

Thank you Snowhog and Schwarzer Kater,

Code:

auie@ThinkPad:~$ ls -lh ~/VirtualBox\ VMs
total 20K
drwxrwxr-x 3 auie auie 4,0K Jän  9 13:01  Lubuntu
drwxr-xr-x 2 auie auie 4,0K Jän 10 23:13 'Lubuntu Kopie'
drwxrwxr-x 4 auie auie 4,0K Jän 13 21:36  Parrot
drwx------ 4 auie auie 4,0K Nov 30 16:11  Parrot-Klon-1-30-4-2022-Klon
drwxrwxr-x 3 auie auie 4,0K Nov 30 16:05  premier_lubuntu
auie@ThinkPad:~$

**Schwarzer Kater** · Feb 24, 2023, 05:10 AM

Hm, everything seems to be in place (in contrary to my premature assumption).

I guess if you

Code:

cd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs
rm -ri *

the outcome is the same as above? -> be careful not to remove files or folders you wish to keep!

Did you already run a fsck on the partition your "VirtualBox VMs" directory is on?

**Snowhog** · Feb 24, 2023, 05:54 AM

Originally posted by nicrnicr View Post

'Lubuntu Kopie'

This one directory name contains single quotes.

Run sudo rm -r ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/'Lubuntu Kopie'

That should remove that directory recursively.

**nicrnicr** · Feb 25, 2023, 05:14 AM

Thank you Schwarzer Kater for your piece of advice:

Code:

auie@ThinkPad:~$ cd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs
rm -ri *
rm: descend into directory 'Lubuntu'?
rm: remove directory 'Lubuntu Kopie'?
rm: descend into directory 'Parrot'?

I typed "enter", "enter", and then I don't rember how but I exited this process as I didn't want to remove Parrot. But I didn't read well. The question doesn't deal with removing.
When I go to the folder VirtualBox VM, nothing has been changed.

Then I did it once more:

Code:

auie@ThinkPad:~/VirtualBox VMs$ rm -ri *
rm: descend into directory 'Lubuntu'?
rm: remove directory 'Lubuntu Kopie'? y
rm: descend into directory 'Parrot'? n
rm: descend into directory 'Parrot-Klon-1-30-4-2022-Klon'? n
rm: descend into directory 'premier_lubuntu'? n
auie@ThinkPad:~/VirtualBox VMs$

This time I only typed only "enter" to the first question, and "Lubuntu Kopie" has been removed.

I did it thrice:

Code:

auie@ThinkPad:~/VirtualBox VMs$ rm -ri *
rm: descend into directory 'Lubuntu'? y
rm: remove regular empty file 'Lubuntu/Lubuntu.vbox'? y
rm: descend into directory 'Lubuntu/Logs'? y
rm: remove regular file 'Lubuntu/Logs/VBox.log'? y
rm: remove directory 'Lubuntu/Logs'? y
rm: remove regular file 'Lubuntu/Lubuntu.vbox-prev'? y
rm: remove regular file 'Lubuntu/Lubuntu.vdi'? y
rm: remove directory 'Lubuntu'? y
rm: descend into directory 'Parrot'? n
rm: descend into directory 'Parrot-Klon-1-30-4-2022-Klon'? n
rm: descend into directory 'premier_lubuntu'? y
rm: remove regular empty file 'premier_lubuntu/premier_lubuntu.vbox'? y
rm: descend into directory 'premier_lubuntu/Logs'? y
rm: remove regular file 'premier_lubuntu/Logs/VBox.log.3'? y
rm: remove regular file 'premier_lubuntu/Logs/VBox.log'? y
rm: remove regular file 'premier_lubuntu/Logs/VBox.log.1'? y
rm: remove regular file 'premier_lubuntu/Logs/VBox.log.2'? y
rm: remove directory 'premier_lubuntu/Logs'? y
rm: remove regular file 'premier_lubuntu/premier_lubuntu.vbox-prev'? y
rm: remove regular file 'premier_lubuntu/premier_lubuntu.vdi'? y
rm: remove directory 'premier_lubuntu'? y
auie@ThinkPad:~/VirtualBox VMs$

There are only 'Parrot' and 'Parrot-Klon-1-30-4-2022-Klon' left.
And there is only 3,5 GB left in the computer which was almost full, thought I removed much more than 9,9 GB.
I don't understand this.

Furthermore I couldn't install exa:

Code:

auie@ThinkPad:~/VirtualBox VMs$ apt install exa
E: Sperrdatei /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend konnte nicht geöffnet werden. - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Erlangen der Sperre für die Dpkg-Oberfläche (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend) nicht möglich; sind Sie root?
auie@ThinkPad:~/VirtualBox VMs$

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**Schwarzer Kater** · Feb 25, 2023, 05:30 AM

Originally posted by nicrnicr View Post

[…]
There are only 'Parrot' and 'Parrot-Klon-1-30-4-2022-Klon' left.
And there is only 3,5 GB left in the computer which was almost full, thought I removed much more than 9,9 GB.
I don't understand this.

Furthermore I couldn't install exa:
[…]

Glad it has worked out - somehow…
No idea about the 3.5 and 9.9 GB - but did you restart your computer and run fsck to be sure?

To install something in CLI you have to have elevated privileges (therefore "Permission denied") - as a standard user you have to use sudo on K(U)buntu :
sudo apt install exa

**nicrnicr** · Feb 26, 2023, 02:12 AM

@GreyGeek:
You're welcome.
How could you answer inside my post?

Thank you Scharwer Kater for your answer.
There is 13,5 GB free space after a new start.

This is what happens when I write fsck:

Code:

auie@ThinkPad:~$ fsck
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/sda7 is mounted.



WARNING!!!  The filesystem is mounted.   If you continue you ***WILL***
cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.


Do you really want to continue<n>? no
check aborted.
auie@ThinkPad:~$

**Schwarzer Kater** · Feb 26, 2023, 06:02 AM

My description was not clear enough, my bad:
you can/should not run fsck on a file system that is mounted (and your / ("root") file system is mounted during you use your computer).

One could do this by e.g. either booting from another system partition on the same computer or an USB stick:
In Konsole (or another terminal emulator) lsblk (or lsblk -f to get a slightly different output) to determine the partition you want to check. Be sure that the partition is not mounted, otherwise sudo umount path_to_the_partition_you_want_to_check, for example sudo umount /dev/sdc5
Then sudo fsck path_to_the_partition_you_want_to_check, for example sudo fsck /dev/sda7

**Schwarzer Kater** · Feb 26, 2023, 06:37 AM

off topic

GreyGeek:
Interesting - this seems to be the "fault" of less, which seems not to be able to process the colour code control characters:
If you pipe ls -hlFV with the --color=always flag into less the output is also scrambled (a bit "less" with ls than with exa, though

).

Change it to --color=auto and it works (I did so above and in my .bash_aliases now).
It seems that with the --color=auto flag the colour code control characters are automatically removed if piped into something.
If you want colour in | more you will have to add it manually then…

Thank you for this observation!

**nicrnicr** · Feb 26, 2023, 07:29 AM

Thank you Schwarzer Kater

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