Taking out the trash on an Ubuntu Live CD

November 10th, 2007 | 11:45 pm

Quick one - if you are using an Ubuntu Live CD to access your NTFS drive and deleting files, you might wonder what’s happening to those files: they’re disappearing from view but your free disk space isn’t increasing; They’re not in the trash.

It actually creates a hidden folder on the NTFS drive named .Trash-ubuntu  (replace ubuntu with whatever username you are logged in as - default for an Ubuntu live session is “ubuntu”).

To see this folder, navigate to your NTFS drive and hit Ctrl+H, which will show hidden files/folders. Deleting the files from this folder removes them permanently, freeing up that precious disk space.

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