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Hi all,

If I mount a second drive (/mnt/2nd) to my Linux machine, the TRASH doesn't work for it. If I delete anything on the /mnt/2nd, it shows a warning (screen attached) The second drive is formatted with ext4 just as the first one with /boot and /home.

in my fstab the 2nd drive is mounted as
Ideally both drives should use their 'respective' .Trash and when I EMPTY TRASH it should empty for both drives.

Please help me configure this as required.

Thanks

Ah yes, that's a very old discussion. There are reasons for or against doing it like that.

FWIW, it _should_ work on an ext4 drive, so check this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/448886
or this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comment ... rnal_hard/

Also look at this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trash_ ... nal_drives

and ultimately this:
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/tr ... ash.1.html
and this:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... atest.html

mehargags wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:58 amIf I mount a second drive (/mnt/2nd) to my Linux machine, the TRASH doesn't work for it. If I delete anything on the /mnt/2nd, it shows a warning (screen attached)

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Some files cannot be moved to trash because the underlying file system doesn't support this operation. Do you want to delete them instead?

The second drive is formatted with ext4 just as the first one with /boot and /home.

in my fstab the 2nd drive is mounted as

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UUID=9bfc50ed-edab-4ea6-9497-a506e3aa0202 /mnt/2nd ext4 errors=remount-ro,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=2nd 0 3

Ideally both drives should use their 'respective' .Trash and when I EMPTY TRASH it should empty for both drives.

Please help me configure this as required.

Thanks @drooly for all the pointers. I had gone through heeps but knew it would be something stupidly simple. I just removed all the extra parameters from fstab and mounted my second partition like the first one was, rebooted and TRASH works absolutely fine. I guess the internet copy/paste I had been using is old and obsolete.

Here is new fstab that works great now:

Great, thanks for sharing the solution!