Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:34:37 -0400 From: Nick Evans <nevans@talkpoint.com> To: robert@webtent.com Cc: lists@webtent.net, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large -X directory Message-ID: <20050906123437.54a4a014@pleiades.nextvenue.com> In-Reply-To: <1126024196.4623.5.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1126024196.4623.5.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:29:56 -0400 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. > > -- > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Try rm -rf -- "-X"
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