<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Rashkae <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@tigershaunt.com">ubuntu@tigershaunt.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Are you looking at the directories/files created in the /media directory? If so, you don't want to be deleting those. They are auto created when a removable drive is plugged in so the Operating system has somewhere to mount the disk. Those directories are required to allow the system to access the disks, and are added/removed automatically by the Ubuntu system. If this is not what you mean, then we'll need more information.</blockquote></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Bruce Pieterse <<a href="mailto:octoquadza@gmail.com">octoquadza@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi, What is the location/full path of these files? Have you tried unmounting the device and running fsck against it if it is an ext2/3/4 filesystem?</blockquote><div> </div></div>This is how the directories are getting created: i) 43c9f2721ed24ab138b75e5e -> ii) databases -> iii) d74157950031f86b102e1759dcd53f<div id=":ui">db (it is directory) (it is also a directory) (it is a file, I don't know which format it is) In the above the last two ('databases' and 'd74157950031f86b102e1759dcd53fdb') I am able to delete (but each time whenever I plug the hard disk) but the first one ('43c9f2721ed24ab138b75e5e'), a directory doesn't get deleted even after emptying it (that is, even after deleting the other two). i) '43c9f2721ed24ab138b75e5e' is the directory inside the usb hard-disk. ii) 'databases' is the directory inside the directory no. i) iii) 'd74157950031f86b102e1759dcd53f' is the file inside the directory no. ii) I am able to delete ii) and iii) but i) is not getting deleted. Its not on /media (I checked with the command 'ls /media') but inside the usb hard-disk. I have several times unmounted the device (from the right click menu) and several times inserted again but again the files get created [ii) and iii)] however i) remains there. Thx. </div> -- Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!" =================================================== <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whyilikeubuntu/" target="_blank">Ubuntu LTS is good</a>! ===================================================