From: cgf@bbc.com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true) 12 Feb 1998 23:13:41 -0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In article , Nicola Bernardini wrote: >... Now, looking at con.c with ls -l gives > >crw-r--r-- 0 0 Everyone 0, 0 Jan 1 1970 con.c > >which is to say that it sees it as a character device, the console! > >Does somebody have a clue on how to remove this thing? I do not >expect much out of Windows NT, but I hope this problem can be >solved via the cygwin platform... When I have files like this, I've had some luck removing them by mounting the drive on another computer and using winfile, explorer, samba, or whatever to delete the file. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".