On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:25, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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On Sunday 08 January 2006 08:31, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
Well, i guess the missing space space problem in the previous thread was not caused by reiserfs!!! After I formatted my root partition to ext3 and install 10.0, I tried my experiment with lxdvdrip, just to be sure: first i configured lxdvdrip to automatically remove the tmp files it creates, then I left the files on disk and used konqueror as an su to delete them. lxdvdrip removed the files properly. Konqueror removed the listing but it *not* free the diskspace!!!! ...
Are you sure you deleted the file, or did you just move it to the trash? If you just, e.g., press the Delete key, you're only moving the file to the trash. SHIFT-Delete will actually remove the file immediately. Furthermore, if you use SHIFT-Delete, you'll be asked a confirming question, since this is not undoable, while putting a file in the trash can be reversed (which is why the file's space is not reclaimed when you issue that command).
Randall Schulz
I just found out that Konqueror "deleted" the files by placing them in /root/.local/share/Trash/files!!! This was done using Carlos's suggestion to run du. I was able to delete the files using <rm>, Konqueror as a superuser could show the listing but it could not delete them. soo, why does kde put these files in an obscure root directory instead of deleting them? That's kde 3.4 and 3.5 btw.