Re: putting existing disk space into files

Not sure if this should or shouldn't work, but have you tried grepping the device corresponding to your hard drive (/dev/hda1 or whatever)? chris On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I need to turn the ~80mb of free space on my laptop into files so that > I can search them. I"m

putting existing disk space into files

I need to turn the ~80mb of free space on my laptop into files so that I can search them. I"m figuring to make them ~10mb each so that I can grep them silly, filter them, etc., in a last-ditch attempt to find my paper (I have a 40mb swap partition that can be used for this until I succeed).