Hi Dave,
I somehow managed to create a file named nul (further investigation
pending), and now rm -rf hangs when trying to remove the
directory with
this file.
Known ('doze) problem. Also occurs with filenames like aux, com1, lpt
etc. The workaround is WDDTT.
No, wrong, the problem arises from
Just FYI and for the archives:
Any ideas how to remove the nul files? Really, I don't want to
format my disk because of this.
You can fool NTFS into not doing reserve-word checking with:
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
You propably have to use the correct quotes, or use cmd.exe,
like I did.
Volker
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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> Just FYI and for the archives:
>
> > Any ideas how to remove the nul files? Really, I don't want to
> > format my disk because of this.
> You can fool NTFS into not doing reserve-word checking with:
>
> DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
>
> You propably have to
Hi Igor,
A couple more datapoints:
- You can also create "nul" by "touch nul".
- You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works.
- For me (on Win2k SP3), "rm nul" doesn't hang, but doesn't do anything
either.
Here neither, but "rm -rf somedir" hangs.
Volker
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On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>Igor wrote:
>>A couple more datapoints:
>>
>>- You can also create "nul" by "touch nul".
>>- You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works.
>>- For me (on Win2k SP3), "rm nul" doesn't hang, but doesn't do anything
>>
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> >Igor wrote:
> >>A couple more datapoints:
> >>
> >>- You can also create "nul" by "touch nul".
> >>- You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works.
> >>- For me (on
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