Re: Deactivating the Trash

[Nate Nielsen <nielsen-list memberwebs com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 19:53 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
>>One problem with that (from having worked on disk recovery software) is
>>that many filesystems become fragmented messes when once they get full.
>>For any kind of file system performance it's a good idea to prevent the
>>disk from ever becoming too full.
> 
> This strikes me as less of a problem with the suggested approach and
> more of an advantage of it. We try to make sure to empty the trash
> before the disk gets to full.

Right, as long as 'disk full' isn't the event which empties (or purges)
the Trash. Time-based criteria does have something going for it though.
It might be easier for people who are not familiar with computers to
understand.

Nate