[Linux-users] USB /dev/sda weirdness

[C M Reinehr]

Ronnie,

On Monday 13 August 2007 06:41, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:53:13 +1000
>
> James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> > Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> > > I have a 4G mp3 player. Works fine but...
> > > SuSe 10.2
>
>  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?
>
> I dont think so but I'll empty the trash before I remove the usb
> device and see if that fixes the problem.
>
> Thanks
> Ronnie

I think James may be right. I just ran a quick check with my system and as 
soon as I "deleted" a couple of files on a flash memory card, KDE 
automagically created a .trash folder and moved the files into it. The file 
system was ext2, and not FAT.

There's a setting buried somewhere within the KDE user configuration which 
specifies whether a true "delete" is wanted or whether the user wishes only a 
move to trash. I've always used delete, previously, but when I installed this 
system I never got around to setting the flag and have just been using move 
to trash. I never realized before this thread brought it up, that KDE creates 
a .trash folder in each separate file system, rather than using just the one 
in my home directory.

HTH!

cmr

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