Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:11:54 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: root AT darkstar DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: rm -d and mangled fat entries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)