On 14 Jul 2002 21:51:27 +0400
Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just deleted a large directory from FAT jaz drive (almost the whole
> Cygwin distribution). Still both before rm -rf and after df -k shows
> me exactly the same values which is rather surprising.
>
> Looks like either df or rm -r do not work properly on FAT, does not
> it?
Same with zip disk.
df remains the same and space can only be regained if disk is formatted.
Unless you delete the files/dir in win, then that extra space will be
avaiable which is a crappy way to have to do it.
Charles
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