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- Subject: Re: Deleteing Directory Tables
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- From: soswald@charlie.usd.edu
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:14:46 GMT
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- In article <1ia4ahINNr75@tamsun.tamu.edu>, carlb@tamsun.tamu.edu (Carl A. Brown) writes:
- >I've discovered that I have a lot of space locked up in empty
- >directory entries (like 50+Meg), and I'd really like to get that
- >space back so that I can put files in that space.
- >
- >Is there any way of removing those directory entries to free
- >up the space for files (I have a 3.11 server 486/EISA/SCSI)
- >short of backing it up and re-formatting it, or will that even
- >do it?
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >-Carl
- >
- >--
- >---
- >Carl Brown / carlb@tamu.edu / CSC-RMF / Texas A&M / 845-0808
- >The only thing that is impossible to do in Unix is to figure out
- 1>how to do certain things. -me (I think :)
-
- Carl,
-
- Have you used filer before? You can remove subdirectories by highlighting
- the name and pressing delete. I guess it all depends on the subdirectories.
-
- -Sandy
- a.k.a. Lit'l Cyclone
- SOSWALD @ charlie.USD.edu
-