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I'm using Linux. I was copying a huge file into my external hard drive (NTFS) when my computer crashed. After booting up again, I realized the free space on my external hard drive has dramatically decreased. I calculated the size of the folders on my external hard drive, but the used space was much greater than the size of everything that I could see in File Manager.

In these situation, I usually would make a backup everything and format my external storage, but that's not an option here.

How can I delete the corrupted file on my external hard drive?

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    run chkdsk on the ntfs partition, may have to be done in Windows. chkdsk will correct errors in the bitmap and fix any free space issues in the file system.
    – Moab
    Commented Jun 10, 2018 at 15:13

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I ran chkdsk in a Windows machine. It solved my problem. ntfsfix or fsck did not help at all.

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