On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:34:58PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > cp /dev/null sys.img > > then just rm it. I have heard it's "safer" that way.
not really from a filesystem corruption/crashing point of view. the main point of that advice is so you don't end up in the situation of deleting a huge file that some process is still holding open, since *nix allows you to delete open files, but won't actually free the space until the file gets closed you can end up with a file taking up space, but not having any means to access it other then finding and killing the process. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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