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I have added an extra hardrive to my pc (pata) that I use to keep all my music on. I formatted the drive using gparted, and it is fat32 to allow it to be swapped to other machines.
I mount the drive with this line in fstab
/dev/sdb1 /home/tim/Music vfat user,rw,umask=111,dmask=000 0 0
All works fine except I don't have a recycle/wastebin feature and files can only be hard deleted.
I have wastebin feature on other fat32 drives, like usbpens.
What can I do ?
Many thanks
Tim
Last edited by foggybrain (2009-08-13 19:34:22)
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er? What do you mean with no wastebin and why can't you delete anything ? Give use more info what programs do you use, do you have full rights over the disk etc.
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Umm... Isn't the wastebin only a folder where deleted files are moved to? If so, why not create such a folder, e.g. .wastebin, and move the files you want to not hard delete there?
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are you by chance using nautilus? I couldn't get it working either, so it would be great if someone came up with an answer. So far I've just ended up using cli and to move it to a designated wastebin as others have suggested, but I would like to do this also in gui.
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I use XFCE4.6.1 with nautilus desktop and file browser.
I have full rights over the fat32 drive as a user, and set up fstab as per instructions in wiki.
I can delete files, but I get this dialog :-
Last edited by foggybrain (2009-08-13 13:50:19)
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well that's because the file is to big, so i doesnt get moved to .Trash , but it's directly removed from the HD.
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The files I'm trying to delete are mostly under 10mb, last one I tried was an empty file ! (I'm also not using windows )
Could it be anything to do with me mounting the drive at /home/tim/Music rather than at say /media/Music or /mnt/sdb1 ?
btw the drive does not contain a .trash-0 (used show hidden files) folder, I will create one and see if things change.
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No change
Last edited by foggybrain (2009-08-13 11:37:50)
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SOLVED
I removed the mounting entry in /etc/fstab for the fat32 pata drive, on restart the drive was auto mounted by UDEV??.
Wastebasket works for the drive now.
Only sacifice is I can't say where I want it mounted, stuck with it in /media/~fat32drive~
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