Trash Directory for Partition

If you have a separate user writable drive mounted, you may have encountered the same problem I had. If your DE cannot create .Trash-$uid, most DEs will not delete files to the trash at all and KDE will copy deleted files to your home partition. I find both behaviors frustrating.

The solution is rather simple: look at the spec and create the trash directory manually.

# for example, your drive is mounted to /media/external
# go to the drive root
cd /media/external

# create root owned .Trash
sudo mkdir .Trash

# make it world writable with a sticky bit
sudo chmod 1777 .Trash

Now delete some file from that partition and check that is lands to .Trash/$uid/files. Your trash directory now works properly.