I recently had to move my Home directory partition to make space for a bigger boot partition. Everything seems to have worked fine but when I run Lucky Backup simulation I get several errors saying that file structures needs cleaning. The files in question are all in ./local/Trash. I have run fsck and e2fsck and both show file system is clean. I have tried deleting these files i.e moving them to trash but all that happens is that the file reappears with a new name e.g delete file xyz results in a file xyz.1 appearing.
I have a backup of the file system pre partition move but am reluctant to use this before resolving the problem. If I restore my backup will the files I cannot delete still be in the ./local/Trash folder? I also have tried sudo trash-empty but files are still there.
I suppose I could copy all the good files onto another drive then format the /home partition and then copy them back but I am hoping there is a quicker way.
All topics I have found on the web relating to this problem say use fsck but this does not work in my case. Any advice would be appreciated.
using ubuntu 24.04.