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: > >> 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". > 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 :-) > 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. -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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