Hi,
I am using Ubuntu 8.10 (Dualboot with XP) and i have 3 partitions. 1x Linux Partition and 2x NTFS. The two NTFS Partitions Mount automaticly on startup in /windows and /D. When i delete sth from them it doesn't go to the Linux trash. So where does it go?

Delete it how? From what OS?

If you mean you're in Linux, and delete files from the Windows partitions, that'll depend on how you delete it. If you're in Konqueror or Dolphin, it may go to the KDE trashcan, or be deleted (depending on how you have it set up). If you're at the command-line, it's just gone.

If you're in Windows, it goes to the windows recycle bin, and Linux has nothing to do with it.

I am in Linux in the normal File Manager and delete the file just with Right-Click > Move to trash. I am Using GNOME not KDE.

Do you have the trash set to auto-empty? And you say the "normal" file manager...which one is that???

File Browser. I haven't installed anything different. Just the Built-in File Browser. And for the Auto-Empty Option - No - I haven't set it up.

Sounds like it might be the GNOME File Manager (i.e., Nautilus). The point, though, was the there are many different file managers, and different "flavors" of any distribution may have different defaults.

You can usually tell which GUI application you're using by a Help -> About.

F.Y.I., I just opened a Fedora GNOME session on tty8 and, using the default browser (Computer->Filesystem->NTFS_Disk) created a "Test" file containing the word "Test." When I attempted a "Move to Trash," I got a pop-up telling me that I couldn't be moved to trash, and asking if I wanted to delete it.

Then I tried dragging it to the Trash container. Same pop-up.

So, I dragged it to the Desktop, which created a copy of the file, then deleted the file in the NTFS file system, and then from the Desktop. The end result of this was the "Test" file moved from NTFS to the Linux "Trash."

I do, however, wonder why "Trash" can't just accept the file without the extra step.

I just tried this, which worked for me on my Fedora system. (I would have tried it on Ubuntu, but I'm struggling right now trying to get the Jaunty beta to work on this laptop, so my only Ubuntu is on a desktop in another room.)

Create a folder on your desktop called, say, "My Trash," and select the files you want to preserve on your Linux side in the NTFS Nautilus window, do a "cut" and "paste" them into the "My Trash" folder. (Note: Dragging them to the "My Trash" folder should work if you hold down the shift key before you "drop" them.)

You could, of course, use more neumonic name(s) then "My Trash" for the preservation folders on your Linux desktop. If, for some reason, you then wanted the items you removed from the NTFS file system to be in the "real' Trash, just go to your "My Trash" (or whatever you named it) and move it's contents to the trash folder.

I figured out that solution myself. Thanks anyway