Re: idea

2015-09-24 Thread Simon Hobson
Michael Havens wrote: > why does deleting a file move it to .Trash but not make the space available > for reuse? Because, as already said, as far as the filesystem is concerned it's still a file taking up space. Longer answer: I guess you are using a "desktop" interface, click the file, and

Re: idea

2015-09-23 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This isn't really an rsync question but... No, moving a file to .Trash does not free space. As far as the file system is concerned this is just another directory and the file is not actually deleted yet. As far as compression goes, you have 2 choice