To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 08 Mar 2000 04:07:10 0000
From:	"nimrod a. abing" <synflood AT eudoramail DOT com>
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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!


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nimrod_a_abing

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