Re: ghost files

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

ad wrote:
> Thank you very much Austin for suggestion phpBB as a
> bullentin board.   It appears to be manageable. 
>
> I also have another question.  Any advice from anyone
> would be appreciated.
>
> X windows got hung up many times today causing my
> machine to crash.   (There was a "Kernel out of
> memory"  message in my log file.)  
>
> Trying to clean up old files I used Locate to find
> files and folders to remove.  I noticed that there
> were several particularly large folders that showed up
> with the Locate command, but when I went to remove
> them, I was told that there were no such directories. 
> The directories did not show up with ls command
> either?
>
> What is happening?

If the file or folder names start with a ".", they won't show up
in a regular "ls" listing.  You need to use "ls -a" to see them.

You DID set up a swap partition, didn't you?
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