On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:54 PM, website reader wrote: > I am unable to delete two files on a hard-drive that originally was in > a ntfs partition. > The files are named "." and ".." > > Trying to use the rm -r -f command fails as does the rmdir command. I > tried renaming them but that fails too. > > I really need to remove these two files, how can I tell the linux OS > that they are not being used as a folder relocation command and > actually remove them?
Well, the reason you can't remove them is that "." is your current directory and ".." is the parent directory. May I suggest reading: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-unixlinux-file-system-part-i.html -Ron _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
