Missing disc space due to failed extraction

[Kyo Tanaka]

Tl;dr, tried to extract a file. It failed multiple times. Decided to ♥♥♥♥ it and delete it. Missing over 50 GB on my main drive. It was a 15+ GB game, and I'm assuming it's leftover some files after failing, because it was not where the zip was located each failure. So... Where did the files go?

If it matters, the program I used was PeaZip, and it was supposed to go to the SD Card. Dunno if this was a cause too, but I also tried moving said zip onto the desktop background but it froze multiple times, until I finally decided to do it in the document folder.

Is there a way to clean up these missing files? Or fix my space issue? I know nothing of linux, so i have 0 clue on how to navigate it.

[thetargos]

Usually, extracting software decompress archives to the /tmp/$USER directory, and when performing operation, then, they move/copy the files. My guess would be that the archive contents have multiple copies in /tmp. The question then would then be: How did the extraction fail? What error did you see? It could have been due multiple factors. Also, depending on how 'disposed' of the original archive it may still be your storage in the .trash directory, effectively being yet another copy.

[Kyo Tanaka]

Originally posted by thetargos:

Usually, extracting software decompress archives to the /tmp/$USER directory, and when performing operation, then, they move/copy the files. My guess would be that the archive contents have multiple copies in /tmp. The question then would then be: How did the extraction fail? What error did you see? It could have been due multiple factors. Also, depending on how 'disposed' of the original archive it may still be your storage in the .trash directory, effectively being yet another copy.

I already emptied the trash. I like to play a lot of games so i have to cycle content out frequently, so i made a habit of that.

According to whatever default Linux uses, "corrupted or invalid data." For some reason it didn't appear as that on PeaZip, just that it failed at the literal last second.

I will check out the directory. Here's hoping that is what it is, because I just lost a lot of space trying to get one game to work.

[Kyo Tanaka]

Alright I'm back. I could not find $USER. However, there's a bunch of systemd-private folders last modified when I was trying to extract said game. Can I assume the files are in there? They're locked

[thetargos]

$USER in Linux and Unix operating systems makes reference to the name of the currently logged in user. Though it was 'recent' just as .trash directories which have the uid in drives where your user has write permissions, the same goes for /tmp (there are several locations for /tmp files, and it even depends on the application, where the location of its temporary files will be)

Did you try to extract directly from the Dolphin file manager (right-click, extract to)? The error you mention usually means a corrupted or incomplete file.

[Kyo Tanaka]

I used PeaZip to unzip at first, but I didn't see an error, just failed. I then try to unzip it via Dolphin and the error was what I said

Where am I suppose to look then? Again, I don't know linux, I don't know what I'm even looking for. Wouldn't USER be Steamuser in the case of steam decks though, since that's the desktop name?

[Prezidentas]

install filelight and see where it is visually.

[thetargos]

Originally posted by Kyo Tanaka:

I used PeaZip to unzip at first, but I didn't see an error, just failed. I then try to unzip it via Dolphin and the error was what I said

Where am I suppose to look then? Again, I don't know linux, I don't know what I'm even looking for. Wouldn't USER be Steamuser in the case of steam decks though, since that's the desktop name?

IIRC the default user on the Steam Deck is 'Deck' (I do not have a steam deck, so I wouldn't 100% know, hence me referencing the environment variable akin to Windows' %USER%. $USER in *nix lingo). Still the problem seems to be a corrupted/incomplete file, given the error.

You CAN get the checksum for the file and compare it to an original (sha1sum), but that'd be a tad bit more "advanced", and probably outside the scope of your usecase, as it would require the use of CLI and preferrably a physical keyboard.

[Prezidentas]

Originally posted by thetargos:

Originally posted by Kyo Tanaka:

I used PeaZip to unzip at first, but I didn't see an error, just failed. I then try to unzip it via Dolphin and the error was what I said

Where am I suppose to look then? Again, I don't know linux, I don't know what I'm even looking for. Wouldn't USER be Steamuser in the case of steam decks though, since that's the desktop name?

IIRC the default user on the Steam Deck is 'Deck' (I do not have a steam deck, so I wouldn't 100% know, hence me referencing the environment variable akin to Windows' %USER%. $USER in *nix lingo). Still the problem seems to be a corrupted/incomplete file, given the error.

You CAN get the checksum for the file and compare it to an original (sha1sum), but that'd be a tad bit more "advanced", and probably outside the scope of your usecase, as it would require the use of CLI and preferrably a physical keyboard.

KDE has a built-in checksum calculator in the file properties window...

[Kyo Tanaka]

Originally posted by thetargos:

Originally posted by Kyo Tanaka:

I used PeaZip to unzip at first, but I didn't see an error, just failed. I then try to unzip it via Dolphin and the error was what I said

Where am I suppose to look then? Again, I don't know linux, I don't know what I'm even looking for. Wouldn't USER be Steamuser in the case of steam decks though, since that's the desktop name?

IIRC the default user on the Steam Deck is 'Deck' (I do not have a steam deck, so I wouldn't 100% know, hence me referencing the environment variable akin to Windows' %USER%. $USER in *nix lingo). Still the problem seems to be a corrupted/incomplete file, given the error.

You CAN get the checksum for the file and compare it to an original (sha1sum), but that'd be a tad bit more "advanced", and probably outside the scope of your usecase, as it would require the use of CLI and preferrably a physical keyboard.

I have a physical Keyboard. Long as it's something i can wrap my head around I'll try it.

[thetargos]

Ok. So basically whay I meant involves navigating on Dolphin to the location of the archive (.zip file), then right click and open in konsole, then just substitute accordingly:

sha1sum <archive_file>.zip

This will result ina string of numbers and characters, if you can compare to a default from the archive, they must coincide.

[hardbrocklife]

This was one of the least helpful threads Ive read. You vaguely addressed the OPs issue, talked amongst eachother, changed the topic to something that isnt helpfeul, and he never responded back because none of it helped 🤣

[Steven]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.