please help, where did it go....

[blackphiber]

I started out with around 250 MB, I got the 2.6 test5 kernel.  I untared it in /usr/src it gave me some error about the .bz2 being corrupt (I ran some program it reccomended to fix it and it created a million little .bz2 files which I want to get rid of, I could not do rm -rf /usr/src and I not want to go through getting rid of a million little .bz2 files with rm filename.bz2, it would take forever), it uncompressed some of the files into the linux-2.6.0-test5 directory, I ran Kdiskfree and it now says I have 10 MB left so I go into konqueror and go to /usr/src (in terminal I type su, then konqueror) and I see the directory linux-2.6.0test5 so I delete it and I see the .bz2 file's and I delete them, but I leave my current kernel intact.  I check to see how much space I now have and it's still 10 MB!  I go into the command line and check whats in /usr/src and the files really are not there.  Where do you think the files went?  please help I am a desperate noob!

[blackphiber]

stupid me, I am a noob please forgive me, if you have this problem it goes to /root/Desktop/Trash  please delete this topic, I would if I could but I can't.  A good idea might be to let users delete their own topic, for idiots like me.

[flap]

quote:I not want to go through getting rid of a million little .bz2 files with rm filename.bz2, it would take forever

You could have just typed 'rm *.bz2'

[blackphiber]

thanks, I will remember that from now on

[Master of Reality]

you would have had to do that as root. And probably 'rm -f *.bz2' or it would have asked 'if you really wanted to delete it' for every file

[flap]

You would only have to specify -f if the files were read-only.