To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 04:07:10 0000 From: "nimrod a. abing" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off X-Expiredinmiddle: true X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: rm -d and mangled fat entries X-Sender-Ip: 208.160.246.197 Organization: QUALCOMM Eudora Web-Mail (http://www.eudoramail.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hellow! I've been using DJGPP for about 6 months now and so far I've encountered few problems. I update DJGPP regularly to keep up with the new releases. I have a problem regarding rm. I used it to uninstall a DJGPP package, and by accident I typed in the -d option (which removes directories without checking if they are empty). Now when I defragment my hard disk, I see lots of blocks that are "unmovable", they were not there before I used rm with the -d option. And I am pretty sure that it was caused by rm. I could be wrong though, Windoze and FAT is a really bad combination. Anyway, can anyone show me how I can remove these "unmovable" blocks? They are wasting my hard disk space. BTW: I read in the rm info page that rm -d will: Remove directories with `unlink' instead of `rmdir', and don't require a directory to be empty before trying to unlink it. Only works if you have appropriate privileges. Because unlinking a directory causes any files in the deleted directory to become unreferenced, it is wise to `fsck' the filesystem after doing this. This is why I am pretty sure that my misuse of rm caused all this. If anyone out there knows of an fsck workalike, plz let me know. Thanks! --- nimrod_a_abing ---------------- Hot Windows Tip: ---------------- How to free up at least 300 MB of hard disk space (as seen from the MS-DOS prompt): C:\>deltree c:\windows Delete directory "Windows" and all its subdirectories? [yn] y Deleting Windows... C:\> (don't try this at home kids... not unless you have Linux installation CDs) Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com