[Linux-users] USB /dev/sda weirdness

[James McDonald]

Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> I have a 4G mp3 player. Works fine but...
> SuSe 10.2
> I use KDE as my desktop. I plug in the player and up pops a
> Konqueror window, it is /dev/sda
> I can drag and drop just fine but when I use the trash option
> to remove folders of mp3's for some reason the disk space is not 
> returned. The folder and files get deleted but the 'empty' space
> is gone to lala land. I noticed this today when I tried to copy an
> album to it and was told the disk was full.
> So I go to winblows and nothing shows up there either except is is
> 97% full. a reformat fixed it. I dropped and deleted numerous times
> and windows always gives me back the disk space while linux does not.
>
> Some other thing that might help. The music is on winblows and I access 
> on linux through SMB just fine. The share works fine, I can add, delete
> and rename files/folders through Linux with no problem.
>
> Any ideas??
>   
I had a problem with deleting items of a Flash Carded camera the 
'delete' was actually a move to a .Trash/ directory hence no diskspace 
regained. Your problem isn't as simple as this is it?