There might be times when you want to bypass the trash can while deleting some files in Gnome 3, luckily there is a way to add this bypass option to the context menu of Nautilus (Gnome's 3 file manager) in Fedora 15 and I have a video to guide you through it.

The process basically consist in editing the preferences of Nautilus, to do so you can just click on 'Edit' and then on Preferences in Nautilus like so:

Next we navigate to the 'Behaviour' tab which is the second to the right.

Among the last options, you enable the option that says 'Include a Delete Bypass...'


At this point you are done, just remember that you wont be able to recover those files unless you use some forensic tools. Please note that this guide was done based on Fedora 15, it might change in other Linux distributions



Here is a Spanish version of this post: Eliminar archivos permanentemente