Re: putting existing disk space into files
Not sure if this should or shouldn't work, but have you tried grepping
the device corresponding to your hard drive (/dev/hda1 or whatever)?
chris
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
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> I need to turn the ~80mb of free space on my laptop into files so that
> I can search them. I"m figuring to make them ~10mb each so that I can
> grep them silly, filter them, etc., in a last-ditch attempt to find my
> paper (I have a 40mb swap partition that can be used for this until I
> succeed).
>
> Can anyone tell me how to do this? TO complicate matters, this machine
> has no internet access, as the pcmcia apparently no longer works.
>
> hawk
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