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Deleting large files
Authored by: thegooch49 on Oct 19, '07 09:57:21AM
This is very true, regarding journaled file system. I had a 60GB log file (long story). When trying to delete it via the GUI, I got a kernel panic. The machine wouldn't start up after that. When I removed the drive, and plugged it into a good machine, the 'good' machine got a kernel panic. It was bad. The trick was to boot into single user, and disable journaling via CLI. That did the trick. I found this information in the thread below, and it saved my drive (and data)

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=55973

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