Large -X directory

Mike Hernandez sequethin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 09:37:31 PDT 2005


On 9/6/05, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net> wrote:
> I have a directory, no idea where it came from called '-X' and it has
> consumed my entire /home partition, now 10GB. Given the name, I am
> finding it hard to remove, how can I remove this file? I've been doing a
> lot of backup script testing on that devel server, so I am assuming it
> came from a bad run at this point with the -X option of tar placed
> incorrectly.

Try rmdir -- -X

Mike


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