[kde-freebsd] KDE-4.3.1 Trash not able to erase large directory(1.4GB), and HDD space shrinked a lot.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

2009/12/6 Luis Suzuki <luissuzuki at live.com>:
> FreeBSD 8.0 i386:
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> Trying to erase a directory of 1.4GB KDE GUI was unable to do so.The Trash
> icon was "full" and the  df command showed nothing had been
> erased.I investigated and saw that the all directory was in
> /usr/home/me/.local/share/Trash/files/.For testing I did:
> tar cf eraseddir.tar /usr/.../Trash/files/eraseddirectory/ ,and besides
> creating the tar file,2GB or more of HDD disappeared(beyond the 1.4GB
> that eraseddir.tar creation justified).After erasing the directory in Trash
> with rm -dR and with all accounts my disk space shrinked by more
> than 2GB(I found no justification for it).So where could this space gone?
> For any temporary storage when creating the tar file?
> But I turned off and turned on the computer and HDD still has the same
> storage space I did not get back my expectable HDD space.

It doesn't seem to be related to KDE - if you've emptied your Trash,
KDE didn't do anything else to eat your disk space. Try checking if
the files you had sent to Trash still aren't around somewhere.

Otherwise, I suggest asking on the freebsd-questions mailing list.