Solved Deleting $RECICLE.BIN from within Linux

I have an external HDD which is formatted as NFTS so it contains $RECICLE.BIN folder.

I'm no longer using Windows but I'm keeping the HDD formatted as NTFS in case I need it on some other computer.
Problem is that the recycle bin folder is not empty, there are files that were deleted in Windows but I want to delete them for good (to empty recycle bin) from Linux to free up disk space.

There are suggestions that all it takes is to permanently delete $RECICLE.BIN folder, with:
rmdir '$RECICLE.BIN' or rm -r '$RECICLE.BIN'

2 questions:

1) how safe it is for file system to do this, to delete the $RECICLE.BIN folder?
2) are files that were moved to recycle bin deleted from disk by this action or are they moved back to file system?

1) it is safe
2) files are gone.

cereberus said:

1) it is safe

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Thank you, is it true that the $RECICLE.BIN folder will be recreated next time Windows mounts the file system?

zebal said:

is it true that the $RECICLE.BIN folder will be recreated next time Windows mounts the file system?

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Yep.

Thank you guys!
It's not the same when you read random posts online vs when you hear it from you

zebal said:

Thank you guys!
It's not the same when you read random posts online vs when you hear it from you

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But we could be lying.

Just kidding.

Ghot said:

But we could be lying.

Just kidding.

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My lying detection machine does not agree with you

Two gates one to heaven, one to hell but not marked, only marked A & B. They are guarded by angel and a demon but they both look like twins.

One is a total 100% liar and one is a 100% truthful guy.

You are allowed one question. What do you ask?

cereberus said:

You are allowed one question. What do you ask?

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Muhahahaha I know this one.

If I were to ask the other guy, what would he say is the answer is to... <whatever the question is>

cereberus said:

You are allowed one question. What do you ask?

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I would ask the guards "What is truth?"

The liar is supposed to falsify it because it's demon lol
While the good guy is good so it won't deny or hide anything.

Ghot said:

Muhahahaha I know this one.

If I were to ask the other guy, what would he say is the answer is to... <whatever the question is>

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Not quite - you would go through gate to hell.

Question is "If I asked the other guy which is the gate to heaven, which would he choose".

The crucial point is you do the opposite of the response. Work it out lol.

cereberus said:

The crucial point is you do the opposite of the response. Work it out lol.

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Not quite, you're assuming they're both evil angels, that is, both liars.
However on of them is good and so it does not lie, if you asked that one you would end up in hell for not believing him lol

@cereberus


Dammit... I knew I was gonna have to type this. Grrr...

You ask: If I were to ask the other guy... which would he say is the door to h*ll?

If you ask the truth teller (and you can't tell which one is the truth teller), If I were to ask the other guy, which is the door to h*ll, what would he say?
He knows the other guy is a liar, and will point to the "heaven door"
And because you asked the truth teller... he will point to the "heaven door", so you take it.

If you ask the liar, If I were to ask the other guy, which is the door to h*ll, what would he say?
Now the liar knows the other guy will point to the h*ll door... but he's a liar so he will point to the "heaven door", so you take it.

No matter which you ask... they'll point to the "heaven door".



If I remember correctly, you can also do it the other way around.
If the question you ask is... "If I were to ask the other guy, which is the door to heaven, what would he say...

If you asked the truth teller: He would point to the "h*ll door", so you take the... opposite door.
If you asked the liar: He would point to the "h*ll door", so you still take the other door.

zebal said:

Not quite, you're assuming they're both evil angels, that is, both liars.
However on of them is good and so it does not lie, if you asked that one you would end up in hell for not believing him lol

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No I stated angel always told truth, demon lied.

Ghot said:

Now the liar knows the other guy will point to the h*ll door...

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Actually the liar knows the other guy will point to the heaven door so it will point to hell door instead.

I say answer to this question lies in trick question that must reveal which one is truth teller because both of them won't answer the same way since one is good and other is evil.

Ghot said:

Dammit... I knew I was gonna have to type this. Grrr...

You ask: Which is the door to H*ll

If you ask the truth teller (and you can't tell which one is the truth teller), If I were to ask him which is the door to h*ll, what would he say?
He knows the other guy is a liar, and will point to the "heaven door"
And because you asked the truth teller... he will point to the "heaven door", so you take it.

If you ask the liar, If I were to ask him which is the door to h*ll, what would he say?
Now the liar knows the other guy will point to the h*ll door... but he's a liar so he will point to the "heaven door", so you take it.


No matter which you ask... they'll point to the "heaven door".

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My solution works just as well.

If you ask angel (not knowing he is angel, he will say the demon will say the gate to hell).

If you ask a demon, he knows the angel will say the right one so he lies and says opposite i.e. gate to hell.

So in both cases you choose opposite.

cereberus said:

My solution works just as well.

If you ask angel (not knowing he is angel, he will say the demon will say the gate to hell).

If you ask a demon, he knows the angel will say the right one so he lies and says opposite i.e. gate to hell.

So in both cases you choose opposite.

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It works both ways... you can ask for the heaven door or the hell door... and from the answer, you'll know which door to go through.

See my addendum in post #13

Ghot said:

It's a four way logic problem.

See my addendum in post #13

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If the question is purely philosophical without religious belief system having a say then it's certainly more difficult to answer.

You guys discuss it, I have to go, thank you again for your help!

zebal said:

If the question is purely philosophical without religious belief system having a say then it's certainly more difficult to answer.

You guys discuss it, I have to go, thank you again for your help!

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The way I originally heard it, it was a King dealing with a criminal.

King: There's a set of twins guarding two doors. One is the door to freedom, the other is the door to the hungry lion. You only get one question.

Criminal: If I were to ask the other guy, which is the gate, path, door, road, etc., to <good or bad option>, what would he say?

The rest works out the same.

Ghot said:

It works both ways... you can ask for the heaven door or the hell door... and from the answer, you'll know which door to go through.

See my addendum in post #13

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Yep double negative is a positive.