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Old 07-30-2013
Question # /UNIX.org file deleting is safer or not
Hi All,

Please tell me the use of # /Unix.org file it has reserved a huge disk space, I want to know is it safer to truncate or delete.

Thanks - Rukshan.Smilie
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Old 07-30-2013
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Originally Posted by rukshan4u2c
Please tell me the use of # /Unix.org file
In the title you called it "/UNIX.org", now you call it "/Unix.org". These are two different filenames, you might want to find out which one the file actually has.

There is neither a standard file "/UNIX.org" nor one named "/Unix.org", so we will have no possibility to find out what this file contains and if it is safe to delete/truncate it. You might want to start with finding out which process created the file and for what purpose.

I hope this helps.

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