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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 19:39:03 -0600
From: Bobby McNulty <snyder100 AT bellsouth DOT net>
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Subject: Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD"!!!!
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:32:05PM +0000, KevinGPO wrote:
> 
>>$ rm -d * 
>>rm: cannot unlink `audio': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `cdrom': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `cpuinfo': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `endian': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `events': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `file': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `hermes': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `joystick': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `main': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `thread': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `timer': Operation not permitted 
>>rm: cannot unlink `video': Operation not permitted
>>
>>HELP!!
> 
> 
> Hmm.  This may be a two chicken problem, I think.
> 
> cgf
> 
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I always use rm -rf foo where foo is the name of the original main directory

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