-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:50:43 Rich Shepard wrote:
> Now I'm reminded why I did not remove these files before. In > /home/pamela/.local/share/Trash/Files/ are what appears to be the > entire system; for example, I see directories for /Xll, /cups, /dbus. > > No directory is a link, and none of the files in these directories is > a link. When I run 'find' on a file I see they're also where they > belong (e.g.: > > find / -name xkb > > /home/pamela/.local/share/Trash/files/Xll/xkb > /var/lib/xkb > /usr/share/X11/xkb > /usr/share/xfce4/xkb > > That the files in her home directory are not softlinks is my concern > about deleting the entire files/ directory. > > Advice? Are you sure that *none* of the directories in the Trash chain, i.e., /home/pamela/.local , /home/pamela/.local/share , /home/pamela/.local/share/Trash , and /home/pamela/.local/share/Trash/files , and the subdirectories there, are links? I'd do ls -al on all of those (piped to less) to make sure. Deleting a hard link or a soft link just deletes the link, I believe, not the file linked-to. I just tested that on my system here, but YMMV. I'd pick a file with a unique name in /usr/share (something that doesn't look important) and copy it to my home directory. Then delete the copy that's in /home/pamela/.local/share/Trash/files . See if it still exists in /usr/share after that and, if so, it should be safe to delete all of the /home/share/.local/share/Trash/files directory and all its contents. If the file disappears from /usr/share , then restore the backup saved in your home directory by recopying it back to /usr/share , and rethink. Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4HsJAACgkQ+qYMIUkNJCw/1QCdHfRbc6fv68coibZg04WLy6KW OUUAniaI6bbkOLdggI4S0Sx/ALcD4pPZ =Ieyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
