Ubuntu 20.04 on VMWare Workstation 16 says the disk full even though it isn't

I've checked for similar problems more or less but couldn't find the exact cause. I'm in a hurry right now, I'm developing a program on Ubuntu 20.04. If I close this VM for now it won't boot again.

The problem is:

Ubuntu warns me about disk space. I've allocated 60 GB for it. I don't have any documents or applications that would fill the disk. So definitely no I haven't used all of the space that I've allocated.

Here Ubuntu Disk Status:enter image description here

Here the VM settings about disk:

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What would cause this?

1 Answer

I've used the "du" utility to see the large files.

The disk usage on a specific path:

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It turned out a single test file that I've deleted were containing 49 GB's of data. I recently copied this file from Windows. Actually, the file size is around 4 KB. I don't know why this has happened. I removed that file and I'm okay right now.

So when copying data from Windows be careful, this also may happen to you.

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