Can't trash regular file

[alqh]

Hi,

I'm trying to trash a file stored in the mounted drive /media/NameOfMyDrive.

eg.

$ touch something
$ trash-put something
trash-put: cannot trash regular file `something'

It works on home directory, but doesn't on a mounted drive.
Drive is exFat, and a .Trash- is present in the drive.
Maybe it has something to do with the permission of /media, although to create, delete file from mount doesn't require the admin permission

[andreafrancia]

The .Trash-$uid and the .Trash directories should be created in the volume, usually this means /media/disk/.Trash or /media/disk/.Trash-123. Moreover the /media/disk/.Trash directory needs the sticky bit set.

[drevicko]

@andreafrancia do you know off hand the commands necessary to set the sticky bit?
What if I wish to have write permission only to part of a disks file heirarchy - is it possible to have .Trash folders in other locations? There'd be all sorts of issues about where to look for it etc... (eg: if things are trashed by different users etc..), but it should be possible to work out a sensible strategy I think.
I currently have 'rm' aliased to 'trash-put' - in the situation above, I'm stuck it seems, and have to use /bin/rm ... to delete things.

[andreafrancia]

As drevicko said:

@andreafrancia do you know off hand
the commands necessary to set the sticky bit?

chmod +t FILE

What if I wish to have write permission only to part of a disks file
heirarchy

man chmod
man chown
Google about "unix group and user permissions".

• is it possible to have .Trash folders in other locations?

TrashSpecs mandates that the location should be $topdir/.Trash

There'd be all sorts of issues about where to look for it etc... (eg: if
things are trashed by different users etc..), but it should be possible to
work out a sensible strategy I think.

Check out the FreeDesktop.org TrashSpec.

I currently have 'rm' aliased to 'trash-put' - in the situation above,

Don't do this. It's a bad idea. If I suggested somewhere to do this I was
wrong.

I'm stuck it seems, and have to use /bin/rm ... to delete things.

You can bypass aliases adding a leading backslash:

\rm FILE

[drevicko]

Excellent response! Thankyou @andreafrancia for taking the time and providing all that useful info (:

Having a quick look at the TrashSpec, I'd say that making $topdir/.Trash globally writable probably isn't such an issue - stuff retains its permissions when put there.

You're probably right about aliasing rm - better to use trash-put or a simplifying alias like trash. I have an engrained habit of using rm though, and have been bitten by it a few times, so for now I'll keep it aliased to trash-put and try to change my habit ;)

[andreafrancia]

You may want create an alias like this:

alias rm='echo "This is not the command you are looking for."; false'

[drevicko]

I like your style ;)

[bnaman50]

Hey @andreafrancia , I am facing the similar issue.

When I use trash-put in my home directory, it works perfectly as you can see

However, we have another disk \data and trash-put command does not work there.

I have created a .Trash-$UID dir and provided the permissions as mentioned in the documentation
chmod a+rw .Trash-$UID` chmod +t .Trash-$UID

I am not sure what to do. Could you please help me out?

Thanks,
Naman