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Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true)
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true)
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Christopher Faylor)
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:46:58 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980211140051.3650A-100000@ax-nicb.axnet.it>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980211140051.3650A-100000@ax-nicb.axnet.it>,
Nicola Bernardini <nicb@axnet.it> wrote:
>... Now, looking at con.c with ls -l gives
>
>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!
>
>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...
When I have files like this, I've had some luck removing them by mounting
the drive on another computer and using winfile, explorer, samba, or
whatever to delete the file.
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http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal
VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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