At 05:26 PM 7/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.
>
>After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
> 'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'
>
>But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
>the process. Apparently, the dos side won't save my symlink files, etc.. Now
>my problem is to get rid of the remaining files I copied on to the D: drive.
>Windows won't recognize a lot of them. So to delete all of them from the
>linux side requires many, many 'rm *', 'cd ..', 'rmdir *' commands. This
>would be better handled with a script that did all these commands. Is there
>a script or a command somewhere I could use to accomplish these nested
deletes.
>
>I still haven't solved the original problem of how to repartition the 'hda6'
>partition. Are my only options to install ftape and back up the files or to
>just reinstall from scratch?
rm -fr <dirname> is what you're looking for.
It's the Linux equivalent of DOS's deltree.
Just be careful you don't kill something you want to keep. It doesn't
ask for confirmation.
--Evan
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