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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
To: "John Mills" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
Cc: "Beech Rintoul" <akbeech@sinbad.net>,
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Subject: RE: Can't delete a directory
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:39:01 -0700
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> How about:
>   [ ]$ rm -rf <root_of_destruction> 
>  - John Mills
> 

root@wimp:obj# rm -rf usr/
rm: usr/fsck_msdosfs: Directory not empty
rm: usr/: Directory not empty
root@wimp:obj#

Thanks,

Riley

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