Comment 233 for bug 330824

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Franz Dietzmann wrote:

> I just read through all the comments (I hope), and did not find this
> mentioned, so I thought it might be helpful..
>
> I had the problem for a long time, but didn't bother too much. Now it got annoying and after some searching I installed mainline 2.6.30 to see if it would work.
> As has been mentioned here before it does, but unfortunatly my UMTS didn't work anymore, so I just deleted my Trash and went back to .28
> After logging in I found I had 10GB more space on my Home-Partition (the Trash only had ~1GB in it) The partition is only 40 GB total, so that's a lot. I checked if something was missing, but didn't find anything, which was strange.
>
> I ran baobab just out of curiosity and there I found 5GB in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged/
> On closer inspection these were all files I supposedly deleted a long time ago, when the freeze appeared afterwards. I have no idea how they got there, I'm just a user...but maybe that info can point someone into the right direction.

I'm sure that this is just one of the many ways to trigger this ext4 thing, still, interested me even if not the cause of the bug.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1196171&page=2
Found this thread which seems to be same issue.

Appears that this is related to permission/ownership - so presumably you deleted read-only files.

I can imagine that might happen if, for example, the files were copied off a CD and had default read-only permissions.

I'm suprised nautilus doesn't handle this more gracefully.