Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-24 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, October 21, 2011 20:50, David wrote: On 22 October 2011 02:24, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for repair replacement.  I wish to remove certain files before sending the laptop back with the

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-23 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/23/2011 02:35 AM, Yves Bellefeuille piše: I've seen your correction, but I still don't understand where this .Trash-root directory comes from. The user says that he's running CentOS 5.7 and Gnome, but under Gnome the trash directory is simply named .Trash, not .Trash-root, and

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 2:24 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: My observation is that .Trash is for normal users and .Trash-root is when you delete as Root. I sometimes use Krusader (under Gnome) in root mode, and that could account for .Thrash-root in my case. Maybe he did something similar. whem I use

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Friday 21 October 2011 11:24, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root I then used the gnome desktop to move the desired files to trash. Now I wish to delete the

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: [snip] folder and the folder itself. This I cannot do.  I have tried deleting using rm -rf ./.Trash-root but the command Try deleting with the -f option. I.e., rm -r .Trash-root. This will at least tell you what the

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/21/11 8:24 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for repair replacement. I wish to remove certain files before sending the laptop back with the HDD. boot a Linux rescue USB or CD to a shell prompt dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=65536 this will

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/22/2011 11:59 PM, Yves Bellefeuille piše: On Friday 21 October 2011 11:24, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root I then used the gnome desktop to move the

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/23/2011 01:53 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic piše: He is saying, which I think i also have seen on my USB Flash drive, system immediately re creates Trash folder. He would like to delete it and unmount without recreating Trash folder. I just re-read his original post. I made a wrong

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 22 October 2011 19:53, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: He is saying, which I think i also have seen on my USB Flash drive, system immediately re creates Trash folder. He would like to delete it and unmount without recreating Trash folder. I've seen your correction, but I still don't

[CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread James B. Byrne
CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for repair replacement. I wish to remove certain files before sending the laptop back with the HDD. I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root I then

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread Ron Young
How about put the HDD back in the laptop, download and burn dban ( http://www.dban.org/download) to a CD and boot the laptop to the CD? Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/21/2011 06:40 PM, Ron Young piše: How about put the HDD back in the laptop, download and burn dban ( http://www.dban.org/download) to a CD and boot the laptop to the CD? There is also Hiren's Boot CD with ton of tools and even Mini Windows booted from Hiren's Boot CD not touching

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread David
On 22 October 2011 02:24, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for repair replacement.  I wish to remove certain files before sending the laptop back with the HDD. I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as