From: nicb AT axnet DOT it (Nicola Bernardini) Subject: HUGE filesystem PROBLEM (too big to be true) 11 Feb 1998 21:57:38 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I hope this has not already cropped up several times. I regularly wade through all the mails of this mailing list and did not find anything similar. I would not know what to search exactly in the past years mail archives (wait to hear). I recently recompiled fileutils in order to fix the rm bug that cropped up (with its solution) a few weeks ago. I patched rm.c and ran it happily through all the directory trees I wished to delete. On a particular directory tree which is a backup of a project I am working on (fairly happily, I must say) with the cygwin project, rm -rfv locks up and cannot be killed in anyway. I go into that directory and check: it contains a file called 'con.c'. It was put there via untarring a unix distribution. 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! 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) 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... I am using Win NT 4.0 SP3, gnuwin b18, coolview upgrade, inetd upgrade, binary mounts, etc. etc. and everything else works *really very well* (thanks to everybody working on it!) Nicola ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nicola Bernardini E-mail: nicb AT axnet DOT it Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".