Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 19:35:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: robert@webtent.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large -X directory Message-ID: <20050906163503.GB44997@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <1126024196.4623.5.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1126024196.4623.5.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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On 2005-09-06 12:29, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> wrote: > I have a directory, no idea where it came from called '-X' and it has > consumed my entire /home partition, now 10GB. Given the name, I am > finding it hard to remove, how can I remove this file? I've been doing a > lot of backup script testing on that devel server, so I am assuming it > came from a bad run at this point with the -X option of tar placed > incorrectly. See the "NOTE" section of the rm(1) manpage, please. This is a FAQ. Prepending ./ to the name rm -r ./-X should work fine.
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