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    I don't know if there's a way to configure or modify it in any sense, but "trash" here doesn't work like the equivalent in Windows AFAIK (which is backed by a Recycle Bin folder at the root of each drive/volume). Instead essentially it moves the file to somewhere under the home directory of the current user. In other words at least typically it isn't backed by "filesystem-specific" directories, which in turns means trashing from a filesystem that is a different from which your home directory resides in, would result in file copying, which isn't exactly a good idea. Commented Oct 3 at 9:27
  • Is there no per-drive trash functionality in gvfs? Commented Oct 3 at 10:26
  • @Cestarian there is functionality somewhere. And I think Tom Yan is wrong here, and as you describe, there's different functionality depending on which media is detected in nemo and nautilus. I haven't verified this is implemented on the gvfs side of things, though! Commented Oct 3 at 11:16
  • My file manager definitely is implementing it that way, I checked, so this is basically off topic and Tom Yan is either wrong or just wrong in the case of the file manager I'm using at least. Commented Oct 3 at 12:47
  • You may try to add x-gvfs-trash to the fstab entry: docs.gtk.org/gio/method.File.trash.html. Or see if simply removing the fstab entry (which should instead let your DE, assuming you are using one, automount it through udisks2) makes a difference. Commented Oct 3 at 13:17