On 2018-05-08 at 13:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/08/2018 10:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Have you tried >> >> stat /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/grub2 >> problem-2018-02-13/ >> >> and/or a 'ls' of the same directory? > > After adding required quotation marks: Yes, sorry about that - I noticed it after hitting Send. >> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat >> "/home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/grub2 >> problem-2018-02-13/" >> File: /home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/1449727740/grub2 >> problem-2018-02-13/ >> Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory >> Device: 80eh/2062d Inode: 141462 Links: 3 Just for the sake of exhaustiveness, can you check the next level down, and confirm that it actually does have a different inode? >> Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 1000/ richard) Gid: ( 1000/ richard) >> Access: 2018-05-08 08:10:45.509914304 -0500 >> Modify: 2018-03-06 09:41:14.972933512 -0600 >> Change: 2018-05-07 04:50:02.664296985 -0500 >> Birth: - As David Wright points out, this indicates that this was last modified in early March, which should mean that it can't have been deleted in the meantime. >> Since we've apparently confirmed that /media/richard/MISC-backups/ >> is on a separate filesystem from /, it really looks to me as if >> this too-deep directory chain may exist within the source tree, in >> some form. >> >> The only comment I've found from you on this point seems to be a >> statement that yes, such a chain existed, but after you deleted it, >> it came back the next time you tried the copy. > > That is correct. Also I did the same before running today's test. What method are you using to delete it? If you haven't already, I'd recommend trying 'rm -r', *very* carefully, from a command prompt. (Unless you have an extremely unusual setup, that should avoid any possibility of an intermediary "Trash" to need emptying.) Do you have mlocate installed on your system? If so, the output of locate 'grub2 problem-2018-02-13' might be informative; if it finds a copy of the directory somewhere else, that might tell us where it's being restored from, if it is indeed being restored. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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