Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:11:54 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <evilgrendel AT gmx DOT net>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: rm -d and mangled fat entries
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, nimrod a. abing wrote:

> Hellow!

> 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",

Well files with the system or hidden attributes or both are not touched by
defrag AFAIK. So you might do a "dir /ah /s " from c:\ to find out what
are the hidden files and then see whether they are the files you tried to
delete or other system files.


> of an fsck workalike, plz let me know.

Well the fsck workalike for windoze is scandisk, but I really don't think
that this is a problem with a bad FAT, more likely that there are plenty
of files with the system or hidden or both attributes turned on and that
defrag is rightly refusing to move them.


 
> 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...

AFAIK this doesn't work, my brother tried this and apparently windoze 98
refused to allow this


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