Trash mechanism

[C. Gatzemeier]

Am Saturday 28 August 2004 21:46 schrieb David Faure:
> On Saturday 28 August 2004 21:12, C. Gatzemeier wrote:
> > Am Friday 27 August 2004 23:26 schrieb David Faure:


> If I'm part of N groups, and I delete a file from each group, I would need
> N different trashcans...

You mean when copying to you /home trash can? Ok, I wasn't refering to this 
case. I think that "importing" stuff to an absolute path unter your home like 
~/.Trash/SYSTEM_ROOT/... is a rather personal but catch all fallback. It goes 
on your own quota.


But for example if the group dirs reside under /group and the trash for this 
subdir can be stored therein.

/group  root:root rwxr-x--
/group/student staff:student  rwxrws---
/group/teacher root:teacher rwxrws---

/group/.Trash root:root rwxr-x---
/group/.Trash/student staff:student  rwxrws---
/group/.Trash/teacher root:teacher  rwxrws---
/group/.Trash/teacher/classlist[deldate] smith:teacher rw-rw----

When you are part of several groups the files are moved to the corresponding 
trash directory.


> Plus one for the directories that are not
> group-writable.

When the admin does not let you write, there may not be much to do about it 
other than private backups or private trashing (into the homedir). (Well, 
having him grant group write permissions and quotas of course)

Another thing with private trashs outside of the home dir is that they won't 
get removed when a user is deleted.

Hm, what was the reason again you opted for trash directories on in the 
filesystem that pool all deleted files together?

Cheers,
Christian