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Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD"!!!!

Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:32:05PM +0000, KevinGPO wrote:

$ rm -d * rm: cannot unlink `audio': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `cdrom': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `cpuinfo': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `endian': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `events': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `file': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `hermes': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `joystick': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `main': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `thread': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `timer': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `video': Operation not permitted

HELP!!


Hmm. This may be a two chicken problem, I think.

cgf

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I always use rm -rf foo where foo is the name of the original main directory

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