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Use OS 9 to delete huge files that OS X won't delete
Authored by: nite77 on Mar 17, '04 08:26:28AM

What I find curious, is that everyone is suggesting that the file was in use, and that in OS9 it wasn't. But everyone seems forgetting this: "but that crashed as well, even when I logged in in single-user mode (command line at startup)."

I don't think that many things are open in single-user mode... at least not any 3rd party... I'm voting for random cosmic rays causing trouble :P
And if rm'ing the file *crashed* the system, even in single-user mode, there just *had* to be something else wrong.

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Use OS 9 to delete huge files that OS X won't delete
Authored by: SeanAhern on Mar 17, '04 03:30:03PM

But it was a system extension that caused the problem. If it were a haxie, for example, it could be doing God knows what. If it were a standard application, I'd agree with you. But a system extension ... I think all bets are off.



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