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Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true)


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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