Trash and the ubuntu root user

[sefs]

I opened nautilus with sudo.

I deleted a large file while in the nautilus launched as root. Big mistake. The space has not been recovered.

It is not in the trash bin or in /home/user/.local/share/Trash

and I can not find a corresponding folder for the root user.

Where did that file go and why is it still taking up space if i have deleted it.

How can I recover this space as it is a very sizable bit of space.

Thanks.

[wojox]

Run these in the terminal:

rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null

sudo rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null

[sefs]

Run these in the terminal:

rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null

sudo rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null

What I am saying is there is no "/root/.local/share/Trash/*/**"

It simply does not exist for the root user.

I have examined it via the terminal.
And in nautilus when launched at root if i click on the trash folder I get this error

The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported

Which is most likely because there is no /root/.local/share/Trash folder.

This has always been the case for me after a fresh install of ubuntu from the alternate CD. It never bother me until now that I need to know where files go when i delete them in nautilus as root and there is no corresponding /root/.local/share/Trash

[wojox]

How exactly did you delete the file ? Shift+Delete, Right Click or just Delete ?

[sefs]

How exactly did you delete the file ? Shift+Delete, Right Click or just Delete ?

I had launched nautilus by going gksudo nautilus.

Then while in there I click on a file and deleted it from within natuilus by pressing the delete key. It disappeared.

To exactly where I am not sure.

I've attached a file to tell the story of the no Trash folder for root.

[Marlonsm]

Use the disk space usage analyser, I think it's inside System > Administration. This way you can see where big files are, and maybe find that one.

[sefs]

Use the disk space usage analyser, I think it's inside System > Administration. This way you can see where big files are, and maybe find that one.

I see Disk utility but no diskspace analyzer

[John Bean]

Assuming you know the file's name, why not just search for it... before deleting it properly this time

I'd use "find" from a terminal but a Nautilus search (as root of course) from the filesystem root (/) should find it.

[cdenley]

Try this, and post the output

lsb_release -id
sudo ls -AlR /root/.local/share/Trash
sudo touch aaa_delete_me
gksu nautilus $PWD

-delete the file "aaa_delete_me"
-close nautilus

sudo ls -AlR /root/.local/share/Trash

If the trash directory does not exist, it should be created by nautilus the first time you move something to trash.

[sefs]

Assuming you know the file's name, why not just search for it... before deleting it properly this time

I'd use "find" from a terminal but a Nautilus search (as root of course) from the filesystem root (/) should find it.

I do not know weather to hug ya or buy you a beer (non-alcoholic) but you did it man!!!

In /home i have two folders...

/home/.Trash-root
/home/.Trash-0

I ran the find command as root from the root directory like you said and it turned that up. And all the files are in there

This was a lesson well learned.

Thumbs up!