Lost disk space from mounted NTFS drive

[helderm]

Hello. I have Windows 7 64 bits and Linux Mint 16 64 bits (cinnamon) in dual boot. While in Linux I deleted a file of 11GB from a mounted Windows drive (ntfs). This file is gone, but the space reserved for it is still there, as if it had not been deleted. Does anyone know what happened?

[jahid]

may be you didn't perform a permanent delete. empty the trash folder in linux mint.

[helderm]

I already checked out this. Trash bin is empty.

[jahid]

how did you find out that the space was reserved for that deleted items?

[helderm]

Nevermind. I used the old chkdsk in Windows and fixed the problem. I have now my 11 GB of free space in that drive. What is the alternative for chkdsk in Linux?

[jahid]

fsck
for information on fsck, you can run

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man fsck

in terminal

[helderm]

fsck
for information on fsck, you can run

Code: Select all

man fsck

in terminal

Ty. I'll read more about it.

[Mark Phelps]

What is the alternative for chkdsk in Linux?

IF by that you mean a version of chkdsk that runs in Linux to repair NTFS filesystems -- sorry, there is no such thing.

Some folks will recommend ntfsfix -- but their website clearly indicates that it is NOT an equivalent of chkdsk.