On 13 Oct 2015 16:12, Charles Diza wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/13/2015 12:37 PM, Charles Diza wrote: > >> But the "confdir-14B--" tree is a different story. No such gradual > >> pruning works, and neither does coreutils' `rm`. (The latter says "No > >> space left on device", whatever that means.) > > > > What system calls does coreutils rm execute? E.g., something like this: > > > > sudo dtruss -f sudo -u $USER rm -fr confdir-14B-- > > > > (This is complicated because OS X apparently doesn't have anything simple > > like 'strace'.) > > Sorry, I'm not a programmer. I don't know what system calls *anything* > executes :) And I have no idea what strace is or what alternatives could > be used instead or how to use those alternatives. > > Someone who knows what they're talking about will have to answer your > question.
why not run the requested command and send us the log then ? it's been a long time since i ran OS X, so i don't recall if dtruss includes a log output option, so you can try like: sudo dtruss -f sudo -u $USER rm -fr confdir-14B-- >log 2>&1 then compress/attach the "log" file here. -mike
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