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Hi All, I deleted a bunch of things with root (old home folders) but now I can't empty the trash....where is the directory that the root trash goes to? I'll ...
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    [SOLVED] Where is root trash?

    Hi All,

    I deleted a bunch of things with root (old home folders) but now I can't empty the trash....where is the directory that the root trash goes to? I'll do a terminal delete from there but I can't seem to find it. Thanks all
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    I've never looked for trash in the root folder, so not sure, but check to see if it's here:

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    it is there but it's showing it empty...? It's definitely not empty though, if I go into dolphin with kdesu it has a full trash bin and I can see all the files...very strange
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    Just guessing... maybe they are there but are hidden files, or perhaps they are in your /home trash folder.
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    checked that first....no go
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    What desktop manager are your using? I know that on my CentOS system with KDE as the desktop manager, the trash folder is ~/.Trash
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    KDE, the trash folder is there where Ozar said it would be but it's showing no files at all despite me knowing there is at least 3 or 4 gigs worth of home folders there (basically I had all these tester home folders plus my girlfriends which was never used and then I had my Ubuntu one that got corrupted when I tried changing it over to Fedora). So now I'm wasting 4 gigs or so (of a 8 gig home partition) for nothing.....right now it's not an issue but I can see it being an issue quickly
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    What I usually do in a situation like this is to run du -sk * .?* to find the biggest directories (regular and hidden) and drill down until I find what I'm looking for. If it doesn't appear, then the directory may be gone altogether, though the space is still in use, in which case I will run fsck on the file system to recover the space.
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    that did the trick, thanks Rubberman. The directory was /home/.Trash-0/

    weird spot for root deletes to go but cleared it up (and luckily because I found out I only had 600 megs free lol)

    Thanks again, and thanks to Ozar as well
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