USB Memory Sticks
An odd request, but what is reasonable brand of USB M S for use with Linux? My reason for asking is that I've found of late some of these items, after a period of use, give a misleading response eg, describe item to be "full, no space", when user knows this to be untrue! tia Michael
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 06:50:05PM +0000, Michael Goddard wrote:
An odd request, but what is reasonable brand of USB M S for use with Linux?
My reason for asking is that I've found of late some of these items, after a period of use, give a misleading response eg, describe item to be "full, no space", when user knows this to be untrue!
I can't reaally see why the *brand* of memory stick would affect why this might happen. Have you simply got a lot of hidden files on the stick using all the space? What happens if you reformat the stick, do you get the expected space back? Does the stick report the right amount of space with most of it used, or what? -- Chris Green
On 01/01/13 10:15, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 06:50:05PM +0000, Michael Goddard wrote:
An odd request, but what is reasonable brand of USB M S for use with Linux?
My reason for asking is that I've found of late some of these items, after a period of use, give a misleading response eg, describe item to be "full, no space", when user knows this to be untrue!
I can't reaally see why the *brand* of memory stick would affect why this might happen. Have you simply got a lot of hidden files on the stick using all the space?
Chris could be right. I had a problem with losing space on the memory card in my camera which I eventually found to be all the old photos filed under .Trash Nev
On 01/01/13 21:55, nev young wrote:
Chris could be right. I had a problem with losing space on the memory card in my camera which I eventually found to be all the old photos filed under .Trash
Nev
Yes this is really annoying behaviour which appears to be the default for some Unity/Gnome installations. If you delete files from removable media like memory sticks and don't empty the Trash before removing the media then the files remain in .Trash (which is naturally hidden from most default file list views) I haven't found a way around it other than disabling the Trash (deleted items) globally in the gnome context menu/Del key behaviour. Unfortunate because I'd rather keep it for local files. I keep meaning to play with inotify or something and have a script trap the umount event and delete .Trash before umounting.
On 06/01/13 13:21, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 01/01/13 21:55, nev young wrote:
Chris could be right. I had a problem with losing space on the memory card in my camera which I eventually found to be all the old photos filed under .Trash
Nev
Yes this is really annoying behaviour which appears to be the default for some Unity/Gnome installations.
If you delete files from removable media like memory sticks and don't empty the Trash before removing the media then the files remain in .Trash (which is naturally hidden from most default file list views)
I haven't found a way around it other than disabling the Trash (deleted items) globally in the gnome context menu/Del key behaviour. Unfortunate because I'd rather keep it for local files.
I keep meaning to play with inotify or something and have a script trap the umount event and delete .Trash before umounting.
Personally, I always have "show hidden files/folders" setting switched on. Then if I spot a .Trash folder on a USB drive, I can check what's in it and really delete whatever needs deleting, or empty the trash. Alternatively, if the files have been deleted in a file manager, pressing Shift+delete instead of delete will actually delete them instead of moving them to the trash. HTH Steve
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