Another empty the trash question

[npaisnel]

Started getting full disk message.
Qparted showed 18gig out of a 19gig partition used......with no documents at all on the machine.

I am just using it at the moment to get to grips with kubuntu/samba etc etc.

Read through various other posts on the trash can and it seems to me that even when you empty it, it does not actually seem to empty, it just tells you it is empty without actually doing it.

Tried kdesu konqueror and going to .local/trash and deleting from there.

Also tried rm -r files/* after cd to the trash directory.

Qparted now shows that I have recovered 2 gigs of space.

Have installed:
Graphical disk Map
Filelight
Disk Usage Analyzer
KDiskFree,
They all give the same result

Now DUA shows the root folder with being 2.3Gb
Filelight shows the centre ring as 2 Gb
Qparted shows 16 Gb used

So where is this missing 14 Gb? is this system fiels or what? I though Windoze was bloatware but this is ridiculous what is using all this space?

And is it possible to get the trash can to actual empty when you ask it to, or do you have to go this routine every time you want to clean out the HDD?

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[datestardi]

Re: Another empty the trash question

I had initial trouble emptying the trash just as you described (with the disk showing near full when I used the command $ df -h). I found that, from the initial Konqueror welcome screen (kdesu konqueror), just clicking on the "Trash" icon (location: trash:/) gets you to a place where you can easily delete trash permanently (I found all my files that the KDE trash bin said had been emptied).

[npaisnel]

Re: Another empty the trash question

Ah yes, that did it.

Is this a bug? Surely when you empty the bin that is what it should do. Not store the stuff somewhere hidden until the machine stops working and is so full that you cant even save a small txt document.

[Rog131]

Re: Another empty the trash question

Hmm - there is:

Trash not emptying on kubuntu !
Bug #30842 in meta-kde (Ubuntu)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...kde/+bug/30842

status FixReleased

Is this really fixed ?

[npaisnel]

Re: Another empty the trash question

Thanks,