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trash-put --force-another-volume: Flag to override blocking of trashing between volumes

Open robomica opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

I use ZFS snapshots, so I made a dataset just for stuff I don't want to back up and link disposable items to it.  

Here's the relevant datasets: $ zfs list -o name,mountpoint,mounted

NAME                                                  MOUNTPOINT       MOUNTED
zroot/encr/data/home                                  /home                yes
zroot/encr/disposable                                 /mnt/disposable      yes
...

This works:

$ file ~/.local/share/Trash

/home/bird/.local/share/Trash: symbolic link to /home/bird/deleteme.d

$ trash-put -v ~/deleteme

trash-put: Volume of file: /home
trash-put: Trash-dir: /home/bird/.local/share/Trash from volume: /home
trash-put: 'deleteme' trashed in ~/.local/share/Trash

However:

$ file ~./local/share/Trash

/home/bird/.local/share/Trash: symbolic link to /mnt/disposable/bird/Trash

$ trash-put -v ~/deleteme

trash-put: Volume of file: /home
trash-put: Trash-dir: /home/bird/.local/share/Trash from volume: /mnt/disposable
trash-put: found unusable .Trash dir (should be a dir): /home/.Trash
trash-put: Trash-dir: /home/.Trash-1000 from volume: /home
trash-put: Failed to trash deleteme in /home/.Trash-1000, because :[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/.Trash-1000'
trash-put: cannot trash regular empty file 'deleteme'

There's nothing wrong with permissions or the link: $ touch ~/.local/share/Trash/deleteme $ ls /mnt/disposable/bird/Trash/deleteme

/mnt/disposable/bird/Trash/deleteme

I also tested this with ext2 and by mounting directly to ~/.local/share/Trash to no avail.

I think this is reasonable default behavior and it's standards-compliant, but since the only workaround I can think of for this is to move or delete the Trash directory every time I need a snapshot, which is ridiculous, an override would be helpful. Maybe also another check and another flag to protect from and then override trashing of large files?

robomica avatar Apr 28 '20 16:04 robomica