[Bug 12893] Re: Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices

[Joseph Garvin]

This isn't just confusing for people coming from OS X and Win32, but
also for Ubuntu users who plug their drives into those machines, because
now there is some mysterious .Trash folder and they don't have the
amount of space they thought they did. A lot of people move
presentations and such through pen drives, and although they may author
it on an Ubuntu machine they are very likely going to be presenting on a
Windows one.

Because the windows recycle bin doesn't obey the .Trash spec, emptying
the recycle bin doesn't free up the space on the pen drive either. So
even how to empty the 'trash' for the pen drive is going to be
inconsistent if it stays this way.

It's also probably a bad idea because most pen drives are flash based
and have a limited number of writes. Creating .Trash and the file moves
cause extra, uneeded writes.

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Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices
https://launchpad.net/bugs/12893