Comment 59 for bug 12893

Joel,

That is true. But when the disk is full because of the trash, and the user wants to put something on it, looks like Windows Vista automatically empties or transfer the trash, so the user don't notice that the trash was there taking some space.

In Ubuntu, it will only say that the drive is full, even if there is nothing in it but trash (that is not visible to the average user). So it's really weird, the drive appears as clean, but there is no space on it. This is the real bug on the way Ubuntu manages trash, imo.