stackyFACTSSometimes a file’s name gets deleted, but the actual chunk of data stubbornly remains written on the drive. These are called orphaned inodes. They are essentially digital ghosts—completely invisible to the user, taking up valuable space, and floating aimlessly until a disk repair utility forcefully evicts them.
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