From: ralf@wamba.central.de (Ralf Meyer) Subject: Re: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true) 12 Feb 1998 23:39:44 -0800 Message-ID: <34e33b9c.wamba.cygnus.gnu-win32@wamba.central.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > 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! > > I spare you the details: I tried to remove and/or rename the file, > the directory that contains it, the tree, etc. with rm -rf, with del > on a dos console, with mv, with the explorer. There is absolutely > nothing to do: it won't go away. I checked and there is no way to > create a file named con.c by redirection, vi, or whatever. But if > the file is create untarring an archive, then it'll exist and it'll > never ever go away... (In other words, it's something really easy to > reproduce, if someone has the guts to do it) Just created a con.c with sh from the NT ResKit. > 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... Don't underestimate NT 8-) Try: del \\.\D:\whole\path\to\con.c worked here. The POSIX rm from the ResKit also easily handles special Dos filenames. -- bye ranf - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".