Deleting Files

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Apr 6 16:43:46 UTC 2005


brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> Thank You it was in a Hidden Trash File!!  All, 1703 files...

cha CHING!  The dread ".Trash" file.  Grrrr!

> Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> 
> There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
> understand binary and those that don't.
> 
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>The word is "mysterious".  :-p
>>
>>Did you try "lsof | grep /mountpoint" or "fuser /mountpoint" to see
>>what's got the directory open?
> 
> lsof found it......

Bet you'll never forget that command!  "lsof" and "fuser" are your
friends!
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