From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 6:20:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bigphred.greycat.com (bigphred.greycat.com [207.173.133.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1F815379 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dann@bigphred.greycat.com) Received: (from dann@localhost) by bigphred.greycat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA09522 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dann) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:20:46 -0800 From: Dann Lunsford To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "whiteouts" in rm manpage Message-ID: <19991118062046.A9496@greycat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Was looking at the "rm" manpage, noticed something that had escaped my attention: the -W option. -W Attempt to undelete the named files. Currently, this option can only be used to recover files covered by whiteouts. WHITEOUTS??? What is this? Never heard of it before and can't find any other refs (doesn't mean there aren't any, of course). After the "pencil mark on the card to enable something" in the ep(4) page, I'm a little, umm, *reluctant* to dismiss this as a joke :-). 3.3-STABLE, last built about a week ago. Thanks! -- Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil dann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message