11-17-2011, 10:42 PM
I am trying to use the sort -u command in backtrack but I have a problem.
I run backtrack from a flash drive and I would like to remove duplicates from a 3.5GB file residing on an external hard drive. My flash drive has only 400MB left free space and whenever I try to sort the file on the external hard drive it stops and tells me I have run out of space.
This is because the temp file is being written to my local flash drive and not to the larger external drive which has many GB's of free space.
I tried using the (Action open command prompt here) within the external drive in the hope that is where backtrack would then write the temp file. Unfortunately this didn't happen.
Does anyone know how I can make it so the temp file is written to the external drive and not the flash drive ?
Thanks.
I run backtrack from a flash drive and I would like to remove duplicates from a 3.5GB file residing on an external hard drive. My flash drive has only 400MB left free space and whenever I try to sort the file on the external hard drive it stops and tells me I have run out of space.
This is because the temp file is being written to my local flash drive and not to the larger external drive which has many GB's of free space.
I tried using the (Action open command prompt here) within the external drive in the hope that is where backtrack would then write the temp file. Unfortunately this didn't happen.
Does anyone know how I can make it so the temp file is written to the external drive and not the flash drive ?
Thanks.