Cannot empty Trash folder

passegua · 12-03-2011, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by segmentation_fault

Could the "input/output error" indicate a corruption in filesystem or a bad disk?

may be.

Any solution?

I've read something about fsck, fdisk, debugfs but I don't know how use those command, do you?

Thanks.

segmentation_fault · 12-03-2011, 03:13 PM

To run fsck (File System ChecK) on your root (/) partition, first of all you need to mount in read-only. In order to do that, I first enter runlevel 1. Type on a terminal

Code:

# telinit 1

as root, or using sudo. Then login as root, if necessary and mount your root partition read-only:

Code:

# mount / -o remount,ro

Next step, force a fsck on that (assuming your root partition is sda1):

Code:

# fsck -f -v /dev/sda1

When the check is done, mount it read-write and either reboot or enter your previous runlevel with telinit:

Code:

# mount / -o remount,rw
# shutdown -r now

passegua · 12-03-2011, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by segmentation_fault

To run fsck (File System ChecK) on your root (/) partition, first of all you need to mount in read-only. In order to do that, I first enter runlevel 1. Type on a terminal

Code:

# telinit 1

as root, or using sudo. Then login as root, if necessary and mount your root partition read-only:

Code:

# mount / -o remount,ro

Next step, force a fsck on that (assuming your root partition is sda1):

Code:

# fsck -f -v /dev/sda1

When the check is done, mount it read-write and either reboot or enter your previous runlevel with telinit:

Code:

# mount / -o remount,rw
# shutdown -r now

Thank you very much for your help, but I suppose being too newbie to understand all those "mount" "unomunt" stuff.

For instance, how could I know "my root partition is sda1" ?

If I call mount:

Code:

 mount
/cow on / type overlayfs (rw,commit=0,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
/dev/sdb1 on /cdrom type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (ro,noatime)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/passegua/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=passegua)

I do not understand where is root mounted.

I try this:

Code:

~$ df -h
File system            Dim. Usati Disp. Uso% Mounted on
/cow                  2,0G  1,6G  299M  85% /
udev                  494M  4,0K  494M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 201M  812K  200M   1% /run
/dev/sdb1             7,9G  2,7G  5,3G  34% /cdrom
/dev/loop0            668M  668M     0 100% /rofs
tmpfs                 501M  8,0K  501M   1% /tmp
none                  5,0M     0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
none                  501M  116K  501M   1% /run/shm

So I suppose my root partition is /cow isn't it?

Thanks.

passegua · 12-03-2011, 04:22 PM

I tried.

telinit 1

and then

mount / -o remount,ro

then

fsck -f -v /cow

I got error: fsck.ext2 in /cow not exist
or something like this since I was in terminal out of ubuntu could not copy the output.

I tried also

fsck -f -v /

and got: fsck.overlayfs not exist

yancek · 12-03-2011, 04:38 PM

Open a terminal and enter this: gksu nautilus or gksudo nautilus. Navigate to your Trash folder and open the files and info folders separately or whatever you want to delete. You can Select All or select individually to highlight files. When you have them highlighted, hold down the Shift and Delete keys and you will be prompted and asked if you want to delete whatever files are highlighted. I've done this on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.10 and I think I found this solution on the Ubuntu forums after trying several of the standard methods suggested above which didn't work either??

passegua · 12-03-2011, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yancek

Open a terminal and enter this: gksu nautilus or gksudo nautilus. Navigate to your Trash folder and open the files and info folders separately or whatever you want to delete. You can Select All or select individually to highlight files. When you have them highlighted, hold down the Shift and Delete keys and you will be prompted and asked if you want to delete whatever files are highlighted. I've done this on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.10 and I think I found this solution on the Ubuntu forums after trying several of the standard methods suggested above which didn't work either??

Impossible.

This is the error message:

Error finding file stat "/root/.local/share/Trash/files/danieluvi/.mozilla/firefox/irndj1vf.default/Cache/7/9A/85658d01": input/output error

nigelc · 12-04-2011, 06:04 AM

Hello,
Maybe the file is in use. Go into single user mode, then try it. init 1 will goto into single user mode.

cheers

passegua · 12-04-2011, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nigelc

Hello,
Maybe the file is in use. Go into single user mode, then try it. init 1 will goto into single user mode.

cheers

Indeed I thought the same as in windows some times you cannot delete a file in use.
But I restarted as single user and the input-output error is still there, impossible remove.

Well ubuntu is keeping well hidden its secrets :-)

segmentation_fault · 12-04-2011, 01:43 PM

Indeed your root partition is /cow, although I would expect /dev/something. Maybe

Code:

# fdisk -l

give some more light, but if it realy is an overlayfs I don't know if it can be checked. In fact, I don't even know what is overlayfs.

Brains · 12-04-2011, 06:00 PM

Another suggestion.
I just ran another test and put a photo called "Wolf.jpg" in the trash through my file manager dolphin. Based on the test I did from command line posted below, I had to specify the name of the file, using a wild card did not work.

Code:

jo@jo:~$ sudo rm /root/.local/share/Trash/files/*
[sudo] password for jo: 
rm: cannot remove `/root/.local/share/Trash/files/*': No such file or directory
jo@jo:~$ sudo rm /root/.local/share/Trash/files/Wolf.jpg
jo@jo:~$

I have had similar issues in Windows, where I could not delete certain files, but rebooting into Linux or Mac OSX and deleting from there most often would do the trick. There was the odd time where I could not do it from any OS, probably because there was an error in Windows MFT where it still reported an existing file that actually did not exist anymore. If this is your case, even if the file does not exist, the space will not be marked as free space and cannot be written to.

VDP76 · 12-04-2011, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by passegua

Since I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a 8GB pendrive

Since your Ubuntu is on a pendrive, have you considered the idea of just mounting the disk into another OS to delete those files!?!?
it's not an "elegant solution", but it might be a workaround...

good luck!

amilo · 12-06-2011, 08:01 AM

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