[CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread James B. Byrne
CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for repair replacement. I wish to remove certain files before sending the laptop back with the HDD. I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root I then us

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread Ron Young
How about put the HDD back in the laptop, download and burn dban ( http://www.dban.org/download) to a CD and boot the laptop to the CD? Regards, Ron Young 919-621-9015 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronhyoung +++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps.

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/21/2011 06:40 PM, Ron Young piše: > How about put the HDD back in the laptop, download and burn dban ( > http://www.dban.org/download) to a CD and boot the laptop to the CD? > > There is also Hiren's Boot CD with ton of tools and even Mini Windows booted from Hiren's Boot CD not touchin

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-21 Thread David
On 22 October 2011 02:24, James B. Byrne wrote: > CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g > > I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for > repair replacement.  I wish to remove certain files before > sending the laptop back with the HDD. > > I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs > file

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Friday 21 October 2011 11:24, James B. Byrne wrote: > CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g > I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs > filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root > I then used the gnome desktop to move the desired files to > trash. Now I wish to delete the con

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: [snip] > folder and the folder itself. This I cannot do.  I have > tried deleting using rm -rf ./.Trash-root but the command Try deleting with the -f option. I.e., rm -r .Trash-root. This will at least tell you what the issue is. Once you f

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/21/11 8:24 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for > repair replacement. I wish to remove certain files before > sending the laptop back with the HDD. boot a Linux rescue USB or CD to a shell prompt dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=65536 this wil

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/22/2011 11:59 PM, Yves Bellefeuille piše: > On Friday 21 October 2011 11:24, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g > >> I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs >> filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root >> I then used the gnome desktop to move

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/23/2011 01:53 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic piše: > He is saying, which I think i also have seen on my USB Flash drive, > system immediately re creates Trash folder. He would like to delete it > and unmount without recreating Trash folder. I just re-read his original post. I made a wrong assum

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 22 October 2011 19:53, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > He is saying, which I think i also have seen on my USB Flash drive, > system immediately re creates Trash folder. He would like to delete > it and unmount without recreating Trash folder. I've seen your correction, but I still don't

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-23 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/23/2011 02:35 AM, Yves Bellefeuille piše: > I've seen your correction, but I still don't understand where > this .Trash-root directory comes from. > > The user says that he's running CentOS 5.7 and Gnome, but under Gnome > the trash directory is simply named .Trash, not .Trash-root, and >

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 2:24 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > My observation is that .Trash is for normal users and .Trash-root is > when you delete as Root. I sometimes use Krusader (under Gnome) in root > mode, and that could account for .Thrash-root in my case. Maybe he did > something similar. whem I use

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-24 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, October 21, 2011 20:50, David wrote: > On 22 October 2011 02:24, James B. Byrne > wrote: >> CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g >> >> I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for >> repair replacement.  I wish to remove certain files >> before sending the laptop back with the HDD. >> >