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Re: file too large to delete



On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the fast reply.
The file is gone.

florian


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