Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] .local/share/Trash/
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:08:35
Message-Id: 200608301006.42449.worldgnat@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] .local/share/Trash/ by Mark Haney
1 I think I've had this problem too, but I don't do too much deleting, so I
2 don't run into it often. What is your desktop environment? I think KDE holds
3 trash in a different place than all others, so that's why I ask. You could
4 place a script in cron.daily that does rm -Rf /home/user/.local/share/Trash/.
5
6 -Peter
7 On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:35, Mark Haney wrote:
8 > I have been wondering why my hard drive was pushing 90% full on my
9 > laptop. I maintain my system pretty well and knew I didn't have 60GB of
10 > data on this system. When I finally got around to doing a du, I found a
11 > folder '.local/share/Trash/' that had tons of files that I thought I had
12 > deleted. I empty my Trash pretty regularly on my system, yet these
13 > weren't being deleted. Any idea why?
14 >
15 > BTW, a manual removal of those files freed up over half my drive space.
16 >
17 > --
18 > Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est.
19 >
20 > Mark Haney
21 > Sr. Systems Administrator
22 > ERC Broadband
23 > (828) 350-2415
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] .local/share/Trash/ Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>