Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-20 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > I always recommend finding big files and truncating them first. You > can truncate a file using the shell by redirection nothing into it. > : > largelogfile.log > Or you can use 'true' as the same thing since ':' is an alias for > 'true'. So shell programmers always tend t

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bob Proulx wrote: John Lindsay wrote: John Lindsay wrote: I just did a google on my little problem and found this rm -fr /home/user/.trash That seemed to clean out trash however checking the size of available space shows no increase in space. I had 24G free originally and despite deleting som

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
Thank you Bob and Don for the info. I will certainly look into this sometime this next week and let you know how I make out. John On 18/12/11 06:42 PM, Don Juan wrote: On 12/18/2011 02:44 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Well, I guess it really helps to do some digging -- found this find -name '*rash

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread Don Juan
On 12/18/2011 02:44 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Well, I guess it really helps to do some digging -- found this find -name '*rash' and it seemed to give me every instances where trash is located. I looked at each file and they are empty. I guess I was mistaken in figuring I could gain an extra 20G

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread Bob Proulx
John Lindsay wrote: > John Lindsay wrote: > > I just did a google on my little problem and found this > > > rm -fr /home/user/.trash > > That seemed to clean out trash however checking the size of > > available space shows no increase in space. I had 24G free > > originally and despite deleting som

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
Well, I guess it really helps to do some digging -- found this find -name '*rash' and it seemed to give me every instances where trash is located. I looked at each file and they are empty. I guess I was mistaken in figuring I could gain an extra 20G of space. On 18/12/11 05:21 PM, John Lindsa

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
I just did a google on my little problem and found this rm -fr /home/user/.trash That seemed to clean out trash however checking the size of available space shows no increase in space. I had 24G free originally and despite deleting some 20G of folder/files, I expected to see 44G of free space