how does one empty the trash "manually"?

[oznola]

hi,

i keep getting error messages that my trash folder is full (even-though it looks empty) and i must empty it manually.

okay? well lets open konsole and rm that thing! but where is the trash folder please?

best i can figure it is somewhere in /(Trash) but i cannot find that directory. i cannot find it in /home/<user> either.

and i know to give ls the -al option. but i still can't seem to find it.

please advise.

thank you.

[james147]

~/.local/share/Trash

is what you are looking for

[dmeyer]

hi,

i keep getting error messages that my trash folder is full (even-though it looks empty) and i must empty it manually.

okay? well lets open konsole and rm that thing! but where is the trash folder please?

best i can figure it is somewhere in /(Trash) but i cannot find that directory. i cannot find it in /home/<user> either.

and i know to give ls the -al option. but i still can't seem to find it.

please advise.

thank you.

Open dolphin, right click on the trash icon and tell it to empty itself!

[oznola]

thank you james... :cool:

[Qqmike]

and to empty it (and remove its "info") securely,

srm -ll .local/share/Trash/files/*
srm -ll .local/share/Trash/info/*

srm - secure file deletion for posix systems
http://srm.sourceforge.net/

(srm has the same options as rm -- so see "man rm" (from Konsole))
(-ll is two lower case letter "el"'s -- see the man page for rm)

[james147]

and to empty it (and remove its "info") securely,

srm -ll .local/share/Trash/files/*
srm -ll .local/share/Trash/info/*

srm - secure file deletion for posix systems
http://srm.sourceforge.net/

(srm has the same options as rm -- so see "man rm" (from Konsole))
(-ll is two lower case letter "el"'s -- see the man page for rm)

Overwriting files with utils like srm dose not guarantee that the data is erased on modern files systems as most modern filesystems use either journaling or copy on write to protect against data lose.

[oznola]

i am still having problems with this dialogue telling me to delete stuff manually because the trash is full even though i navigated directly to ~/.local/share/Trash/file <path to trash>/info and <path to trash>/Trash and ran rm in all three of them.

also there is an rm process that is using from 45 to 50% of my cpu capacity that seems to be serving no purpose..

any suggestions would be wonderful.

i am about ready to reinstall everything but i don't really want to.

Edit: the rm() process hogging cpu is visible with top.

[oshunluvr]

How much hard drive space do you have in /home?

[vinnywright]

How much hard drive space do you have in /home?

that is a good question what is the output of

df -h

VINNY

[claydoh]

Don't forget you can edit the trash size settings from within Dolphin's options.

[Rod J]

Sounds like possible file system corruption may be causing the rm process to hang. Make sure you backup your data soon!

I would then boot up from a live cd or USB and check the file system using fsck.

[oznola]

hello everyone,

thank you for pitching in.

here is the diagnostic output some have requested.

oznola@<hostname>:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/kubuntu-root 28G 18G 8.1G 69% /
udev 992M 4.0K 992M 1% /dev
tmpfs 402M 844K 401M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1004M 84K 1004M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 8.0K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 228M 156M 61M 73% /boot
/home/oznola/.Private 28G 18G 8.1G 69% /home/oznola
/dev/mmcblk0p1 31G 31G 0 100% /media/AD14-2682
192.168.10.1:/home/storage 907G 60G 802G 7% /home/oznola/<Server name>
oznola@<hostname>:~$

running a backup is a good idea rod. i have been using the tardis plasmoid backing up my home dir to a local sd card. i like tardis.

[jlittle]

Check out this old thread: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...empty-manually

And others by searching on "Trash".

[oznola]

bravo jlittle!

i shall look into that thread carefully. also i realized the mystry rm() using much of my cpu capacity may be the work of tardis running in the background. when the backup destination becomes full it removes older stuff to make room for more recent images.

this is worth consideration.

i am wondering if perhaps i should specify a temp directory on my server as the destination for the tardis backup images. of course that will happen over wireless nfs and i should consider what happens if i take my netbook away from home.

[Jonas]

slightly off topic so sorry Oznola, and heads up; I think these kind of trash-can reports will increase with Steam porting to Linux. For instance I DL'd a ~3 GB steam client deb, this package wont so easy be trashed and must manually be removed on my system(and most common setups?)

By the looks of it Steam/Valve will port more games to Linux, with their usually huge packets. Maybe advising a larger /home partition could be a solution, I don't know enough about this issue to give any solutions.

b.r

jonas