11 Jan
2020
11 Jan
'20
12:52 a.m.
Steven D'Aprano wrote on 1/10/20 5:03 PM:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:37:44PM -0700, D. R. Evans
wrote:
Hmmm... I know there have been some versions of *K*DE that allowed the user to
set those two values -- I certainly don't want a 4TB drive to get filled with
files I no longer want; and I also don't want to have "Empty the trash" as
the
only option for decreasing its size. But I don't know if *T*DE has ever
provided anything like that, or indeed whether recent versions of *K*DE do
so... I think I must have just assumed that configuration was possible when I
switched to TDE.
So I'm hoping that someone will post a different answer :-)
I expect I'm being blind and it's
somewhere obvious, but I can't find any
information on configuring trash in TDE.
Example questions for which I'd like to find answers: how large can it grow?
how long can files stay in trash before they're deleted? where is trash
actually located?
As far as I know, the answer to the first two questions is "as big as
the available space on your hard drive" and "until you choose Empty
Trash from the menu".
The location of the trash is:
~/.local/share/Trash
but you probably shouldn't mess with it, I'm not sure how resilient
Konquorer is if you mess with the trash's internal structure.
And that would mean that I can't even write a script to age things out of the
trash gracefully if it indeed turns out that I can't control aging or size
with configuration values in the config file. Not good. In fact, so not good
that I'd have to figure out some completely different trash mechanism :-(
I suppose I could create an entirely separate and rather small filesystem just
for trash, but that has the distinct odour of a kludge.
Doc
PS Hmmm... after a bit of experimenting, I don't think that trash will expand
to fill the disk. On the system on which I'm typing this, there seems to be a
hard limit of about 30GB. I have no idea where that number comes from, though.
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