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Old 16th June 2009
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Originally Posted by gosha View Post
...OpenBSD cannot even save an empty vi file....
Were you root at the time of your attempt? Note:
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
As we've told you, some space is reserved for the superuser on Unix filesystems...
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...is there a command-line tool to transfer a whole directory?
On a *nix system, cp(1) with -R can be used for local or NFS mounted filesystems, and scp(1) with -r can be used with a remote system over an SSH connection. (NFS and SSH servers are available for Windows under Cygwin.)

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