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.
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