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Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true)
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- Subject: Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true)
- From: "Ralf Meyer" <ralf at wamba dot central dot de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:11:49 +0100
- Organization: priv., Kassel, Germany
> crw-r--r-- 0 0 Everyone 0, 0 Jan 1 1970 con.c
>
> which is to say that it sees it as a character device, the console!
>
> I spare you the details: I tried to remove and/or rename the file,
> the directory that contains it, the tree, etc. with rm -rf, with del
> on a dos console, with mv, with the explorer. There is absolutely
> nothing to do: it won't go away. I checked and there is no way to
> create a file named con.c by redirection, vi, or whatever. But if
> the file is create untarring an archive, then it'll exist and it'll
> never ever go away... (In other words, it's something really easy to
> reproduce, if someone has the guts to do it)
Just created a con.c with sh from the NT ResKit.
> Does somebody have a clue on how to remove this thing? I do not
> expect much out of Windows NT, but I hope this problem can be solved
> via the cygwin platform...
Don't underestimate NT 8-)
Try:
del \\.\D:\whole\path\to\con.c
worked here.
The POSIX rm from the ResKit also easily handles special Dos
filenames.
--
bye
ranf
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