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Date:      Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:37:29 -0400
From:      Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com>
To:        robert@webtent.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large -X directory
Message-ID:  <3060c23905090609374c66f05a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1126024196.4623.5.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
References:  <1126024196.4623.5.camel@columbus.webtent.org>

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On 9/6/05, 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.

Try rmdir -- -X

Mike



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