Space Issues w/ Removable Media

I notice when I save a 4 GB file to my USB removable thumb drive and then delete the file, it's not actually deleted but dumped in a .Trash folder. This is very annoying because when I then look and see there are no visible contents in the drive, I get errors saying the file I am trying to save is too large or the disk is out of space. How can I make sure when I remove / delete a file from my USB thumb drives, it doesn't move it or cache it in .Trash or any specific place on the removable media?

Carlwill wrote:I notice when I save a 4 GB file to my USB removable thumb drive and then delete the file, it's not actually deleted but dumped in a .Trash folder. This is very annoying because when I then look and see there are no visible contents in the drive, I get errors saying the file I am trying to save is too large or the disk is out of space. How can I make sure when I remove / delete a file from my USB thumb drives, it doesn't move it or cache it in .Trash or any specific place on the removable media?
How are you deleting that file? Do you run 'rm some_file' from the commandline?

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