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Re: file too large to delete



on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf (42ff@gmx.net) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have done something really stupid.
> I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized
> that it was still recording, there was a 6GB file.
> xawtv crashed and ls and rm are also crashing and the file is still
> there.

Posted here recently:

    $ cat /dev/null > mybigfile
    $ rm mybigfile

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