John, The >UK... worked. The file was set to 0 bytes and i was able to delete it.
Great tip!! This is a known problem. The problem is that HFS is a journalling filesystem. That means that instead of updating the "metadata" directly, the filesystem driver tries to allocate a new block to receive the updated metadata (like the directory or inodes, etc). Unfortunately, when you have literally NO more space, then the changed metadata cannot be journalled and you are SOL. Now, some have said that on occassion, if you UNMOUNT the filesystem, then MOUNT it again, some space MIGHT be freed up to allow the deletion. I don't remember if this works or not, but you might try doing: >UK21775.PAX.Z Note that the greater than sign > is the first character of the input. This basically tells the shell to truncate the file to 0 bytes. This sometimes works as well. If it does, then you can do the "rm" command. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
