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Makosuke

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Aug 15, 2001
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I'm moving files around to get settled into my G5, but I'm trying to get rid of the 10.2 install on the internal drive it shipped with so I can use that as a pure data drive (I added a second drive, which has 10.3 installed on one partition).

I've already deleted all the visible files, but of course there are a lot of leftover Unix files (.vol, mach_kernel, private/, and so on). What I'm wondering is if there's anything wrong with just using terminal and sudo to delete the rest of the invisible junk (except .DS_Store). I'm assuming that'll take care of anything, and any symlinks or such Unix business (not a Unix expert, but somewhat experienced) are only connected to files on that drive, not on my new 10.3 install.

I figure this is a stupid question, but I didn't want to delete a linked file and find out that I just wiped out the /bin on my startup drive or something wacky like that.
 
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