[Solved] Trash won't empty - was a corrupted NTFS disk

youjh · 2010-01-27 23:22:28

Hey all,

So I noticed that there are some files in my trash can that won't go away.
When I hit 'empty trash', any new files will be deleted, but several just won't be deleted.

If I right click and click 'delete item permanently', it gives the following error:
'Failed to delete the item from the trash'

Any ideas?

Last edited by youjh (2010-02-02 03:12:58)

ZaQ · 2010-01-27 23:27:26

Open a terminal, go to your trash folder and delete the files as root/sudo.

The trash folder should be under ~/.Trash, ~/.local/Trash or something like that.

youjh · 2010-01-27 23:39:31

OK, so under ~/.local/share/Trash there are three folders:
expunged, files, and info

All three of these are empty and do not list the files found in the trash can.

grey · 2010-01-27 23:49:14

What happens when you open the Trash - can you see the files then?

youjh · 2010-01-27 23:51:09

Yep. That's the problem.

anonymous_user · 2010-01-28 00:07:10

Do you have any USB disks connected? Perhaps the files are in their Trash.

grey · 2010-01-28 00:10:42

Can you see the files in the filesystem? E.g. via find ~/. -name <file in trash>

youjh · 2010-01-28 00:20:25

Aha! They are located in a mounted disk.
I was able to remove the files, but two folders are being stubborn:

sudo rm -r thrikpriest/
rm: cannot remove `thrikpriest': No such file or directory

theapodan · 2010-01-28 00:22:16

youjh wrote:

OK, so under ~/.local/share/Trash there are three folders:
expunged, files, and info
All three of these are empty and do not list the files found in the trash can.

Maybe the files are dotfiles (e.g. .xinitrc), which in linux are hidden. Trash itself, at least in thunar, seems to make these files visible, but if you browsed to ~/.local/Trash/files, they might not show up, unless you enable show hidden files, or run ls with the switches -ls

youjh · 2010-01-28 00:54:46

theapodan wrote:

youjh wrote:
OK, so under ~/.local/share/Trash there are three folders:
expunged, files, and info
All three of these are empty and do not list the files found in the trash can.
Maybe the files are dotfiles (e.g. .xinitrc), which in linux are hidden. Trash itself, at least in thunar, seems to make these files visible, but if you browsed to ~/.local/Trash/files, they might not show up, unless you enable show hidden files, or run ls with the switches -ls

I found these files under a mounted disk in /media/Shared/.Trash-1000. As to my previous post, I have deleted the data, but two folders physically remain on the drive in the .Trash-1000 folder and can not be deleted, either through the terminal or with the 'Empty Trash' function in the Trash Can. They appear in both the Trash Can and can be found in the Trash location on the mounted disk.

theapodan · 2010-01-31 16:55:47

Weird. What are the permissions on the folders? And who owns them?

youjh · 2010-01-31 17:17:46

My user owns them, the have full file permissions (775), and neither the user nor su can remove them.
I don't think its a file permission issue, it seems the folders can't be found:

/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$ ls -lrat
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 1 joe users     0 Dec 14 19:23 ..
drwxrwxr-x 1 joe users  8192 Dec 14 19:52 eltee_john_mcclane
drwxrwxr-x 1 joe users  4096 Jan 27 19:16 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 joe users 12288 Jan 27 19:18 thrikpriest
/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$ sudo rm -r eltee_john_mcclane/
Password: 
rm: cannot remove `eltee_john_mcclane': No such file or directory
/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$

fsckd · 2010-01-31 17:38:08

Try by inode: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/delete-re … umber.html

If that doesn't work, give us the output of ls -il and getfacl.

Also, what file system is that disk?

youjh · 2010-01-31 18:21:36

its a mounted NTFS partition that is shared between Arch and Win7

no success with the inode deletion, it was able to list the inode, but not find it to delete ;-)

here is what I tried:

/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$ stat thrikpriest/
  File: `thrikpriest/'
  Size: 12288         Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 807h/2055d    Inode: 8927        Links: 1
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/     joe)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2010-01-27 19:18:50.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2010-01-27 19:18:50.000000000 -0500
Change: 2010-01-27 19:18:50.000000000 -0500

/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$ find -inum 8927 -exec rm -ri {} \;
rm: remove directory `./thrikpriest'? y
rm: cannot remove `./thrikpriest': No such file or directory

/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$ ls -il thrikpriest/
total 0

/media/Shared/.Trash-1000/files$ getfacl thrikpriest/
# file: thrikpriest/
# owner: joe
# group: users
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::r-x

fsckd · 2010-01-31 19:15:55

Some more questions/options,

* does rmdir work?

* can you move the items out of trash, such as /tmp, and rmdir there?

* can you rename the files and rmdir those?

* can you access and delete the files from Windows? if so, file a bug ASAP

youjh · 2010-02-02 03:12:23

OK, so no to everything on there.

I ran a check-disk with Windows (would have with linux, but no ntfs check support yet ;-) ), and apparently the drive structure was corrupted. Check-disk patched it up for me, and flagged those files as corrupted, cleaned the structure, and removed them.

Hmm. Would this have happened due to sharing the NTFS drive between Arch and Windows?

Neheb · 2010-02-02 08:26:06

youjh wrote:

Hmm. Would this have happened due to sharing the NTFS drive between Arch and Windows?

I don't think so. I have most of my harddrives as ntfs and sharing them between windows and arch and I haven't noticed anything after 6 months of doing so.

youjh · 2010-02-02 14:44:29

OK. Must have just been something weird.

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