Cannot recover storage capacity from appVMs or other sources

[EmiliaAS]

basically the scenario is as follows:
I was having an issue were there wasn’t enough storage space left in order to boot a given qube.

I resolved this by changing a setting in a confit from 90% to 95% allowing there to be lest reserved space, and more free space allowing me to boot qubes again.

That is not the issue, the issue is, after doing that, I have gone through and deleted about 500gb of stuff, movies I ripped, screenshots etc etc, even a failed windows VM

All of that, and the qubes disk space monitor doesn’t indicate any changes, and still says I’m using 90% of my storage capacity. Has anyone run into anything like this? I even rebooted hoping the manager just wasn’t updating correctly, I even tried to use fstrim to trim on dom0 and in individual qubes, but nothing works

It says I tried a total of I believe about 20gb from different locations, and the storage monitor still hasn’t changed.

[apparatus]

@EmiliaAS

That is not the issue, the issue is, after doing that, I have gone through and deleted about 500gb of stuff, movies I ripped, screenshots etc etc, even a failed windows VM

Maybe set revisions_to_keep to 0 for this VM with large deleted files so your old revision with files that you deleted will be removed as well:

Best Practice for 1TB of files in private storage of one Qube?

What do you mean here? Delays or errors? Upd: I think I know what is happening. The volume-backup-revert is saving the private volume snapshot every time you shut down your qube. If the qube is large, it may be very slow. You can switch it off using qvm-volume config vmname:private revisions_to_keep 0

[EmiliaAS]

thanks, that seems to at least be a bit of the issue, set that in my blu-ray ripping qube, and my sys-net which I have been using to transfer rips to my NAS

but I’m still curious why deleting some unused qubes seemed to have no effect, guess its not a major issue atm, but it seems odd