Re: Deactivating the Trash

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 19:53 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:46 -0300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> >>The menu could contain "Never", "After 1 year", "After 3 months", "After
> >>1 month", "After 1 week", "After 1 day", "When I log out", and
> >>"Immediately". The last option would satisfy Nikolaus's use case.
> 
> This would be great!
> 
> >>This option could replace the "Include a Delete command that bypasses
> >>Trash" option, so the number of preferences would stay the same.
> > 
> > Yeah. This seems like a good idea. Perhaps we should also somehow notice
> > when disks are near full and the trash is large and auto-clean it?
> 
> 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.

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