GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603478
Could not empty trash when disk is full
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:12:46 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/478010 "My hard disk was full. I tried to free some space by emptying trash through nautilus. I got a progress bar which didn't show any progress and disappeared. No files were deleted. I tried it a few times like a robot (just trying to make the bug report more interesting), I got the same result. Emptying the trash with the trash icon near the bottom right panel showed more promising behavior. The progress bar indeed looked to deleting files. But the result it same. Nothing got cleaned. Finally I used command line to delete the trash"
I observed this bug on Ubuntu 10.10 with Gnome version 2.32.0. Obvious assumption of problem cause is that "empty trash" command tries to log something on disk or create temporary file. In my case whole system is installed on single partition. Helped workaround suggested by user raguanu in original Launchpad bug report: rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*
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