On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:25, Ivan wrote: > Hi all, > I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs > partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error > removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? ) [...] > > Ivan
This doesn't answer your question but when you rm a 'file' that big why not just use: cat /dev/null > sys.img or: cp /dev/null sys.img then just rm it. I have heard it's "safer" that way. Jesse
