On Tuesday 20 December 2005 23:23, Jerry Lapham wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 08:04, Jerry Lapham wrote: > >>Where is the Trash folder physically located on disk? What's its name? > >> > >>Monday I was trying to use the Mandrake Control Center backup. It > >>created 2.4 GB of gzipped files, which was way too much for for my 700 > >>MB CD-R. It also filled up my / partition. I wanted to delete the > >>gzipped files but, unfortunately, KDE just showed "Move to Trash" on the > >>drop down menu and I clicked on it. I emptied the Trash but the / > >>partition still showed full. Now I can't boot into X and KDE. > >> > >>I assume some or all of that 2.4 GB is somewhere on the / partition and > >>I'd like to delete it but I can't find it. Also, how do I get Delete as > >>an option in place of Move to Trash so this doesn't happen again. > > > > Last question first : To get the "delete option" in Konqueror go to > > Settings --> Configure Konqueror --> Behavior --> and tick the "Show > > 'delete' context menu...". > > Thanks. > > > My trash is located in /home/kaj/.local/share/Trash/files > > Mine is too and it's empty, so apparently that's not the problem. The > /home partition has 6.3G available. > > Thw /var/lib/drakbackup directly I moved the gzipped files from is also > empty. Is there any way that 2.4G could be moved to Trash on another > partition without changing the disk free reported? > > Or if not, is there some way to find what's filling up the / partition? > I'm running Mandriva 2006 and /home and /user are separate partitions.
Have you tried the trick with sending a unimportant file with a unique name to trash and then using locate to find the path ? Maybe installing kdirstat and running that could give you a clue ? Kaj Haulrich. -- ***Sent from a 100% Microsoft-free PC*** ***Running Linux (Mandriva 2006)*** ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
