Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-09 Thread Damien
> > would "cp mybigfile /dev/null" work also? > > This isn't ancient Greece. We believe in the power of experiements and > scientific method. > *grin* i couldn't agree more. perhaps one of the biggest steps you can take towards becoming proficient at computing is learning to experiment. i'm no

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-09 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:21:31AM -0500, Patrick Dahiroc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:59:36AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EM

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
would "cp mybigfile /dev/null" work also? On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:59:36AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > >

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have done something really stupid. > > I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized > > that

Re: file too large to delete

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have done something really stupid. > I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized > that it was still recording, there was a 6GB file. > xawtv crashed and ls and rm are als