[Sussex] Ubuntu's being weird with MP3 player

[rosemurgy at googlemail.com]

>On 08/06/07, linux at oneandoneis2.oryg <linux at oneandoneis2.org> wrote:
> Evening all,
>
> as some of you might remember, my other half uses Ubuntu. She's just
> run into a problem with it: She plugged in her MP3 player and removed
> a large number of MP3s (and Oggs) but this didn't free up any space,
> and cfdisk showed the reason why: Every time she deletes a file from
> the flash disk, it shrinks that partition by the size of that file.
>
> Not ideal, and even more annoying, we can't repartition & reformat the
> disk successfully in Ubuntu - we get a "superblock" error message. So
> she's having to use Windows to get anywhere with her MP3 player.
>
> And that's not a good thing!
>
> Any idea on why Ubuntu is being weird like this?

Hi,

Your partner probably already picked this up but when using ubuntu
with my own mp3 stick (a trusty old ibead600) I noticed a 'trash'
directory is created on the player and deleted files are moved there
by default.

Also I've found the irc channel for ubuntu-uk (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/IRC )very helpful & you might find your
answer there:

Good Luck