Comment 27 for bug 30842

I think I am having the same issue with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. I noticed my root disk usage doubled in size and when i found the .local/trash folder full of garbage, I searched and found this post. It might just be a coincident, but I had just started using gksudo to launch a nautilis file browser with root privilegdes so I could move songs files into the pydance folder under /usr/share/games/... before I noticed this problem. It may just be I wasn't placing or deleting any files into the root until then.

Once I realized that crowding my root with all those song files was a bad idea, I tried to add a PATH to my /home/bin and then moved all the files there and then deleted them off the root. The disk space didn't decrease until I went back and shift-deleted the contents in the /root/.local/trash

Hope this helps, I am a complete newb, so I am just pushing keys here