[plug] Nautilus Annoyance

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 7/12/06, Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I converted my Aunt to Linux, because windows died
> completely. She's been dual booting for awhile, which has lead to an
> interesting file system setup. /home/linda is on the root partition,
> and /home/linda/Documents is on another partition, mounted there via a
> bind mount. Both file systems are ext3, and the file permissions are
> correct for her user.
>
> Unfortunately, Nautilus can't move files between filesystems for some
> reason... This means, you can't "Move to Trash" anything under
> /home/linda/Documents, because /home/linda/.Trash is on a different
> filesystemp. Even putting .Trash on the same partition as Documents
> didn't cure this. So we learnt to live without Trash... Strike one.
>
> Now we have another problem. She has a folder /home/linda/Pictures,
> that she wishes to move to /home/linda/Documents....
>
> Error "Not on the same file system" while moving "/home/linda/Pictures"
>
> Now this is just getting ridicules. Since when did Linux have a
> problem moving stuff between filesystems? We almost stricked out
> earlier with issues with her Camera, which (fingers crossed) is all
> resolved now. But this, is beyond a joke. I'm now going to guide her
> through the steps of installing Thunar or Rox, just so she can move
> her own files around!
>
> Anyone with a solution to this annoyance, without moving her home dir
> to the same partition as her Documents, or visa versa, PLEASE let me
> know!
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
> p.s. If there  is some really nice config/switch... Please tell me,
> I've not used Nautilus for 2 years now....
>
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Quick question: which Linux? I move stuff between filesystems all the
time (cdroms, nfs, flash disks, ext. HDDs, local HDD...) and don't see
this with Gentoo, or Ubuntu 5.10/6.06 for that matter..

Tomasz