emptying or deleting large restart.txt file from root

[AGID]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there is a way to delete or empty restart.txt in root because it takes so much space. is it possible?

Thanks alot

[pcmanbob]

Deleting files in Linux is done using rm at the command line.

So to delete a file in the current directory you would use rm file_1.txt

to delete a file in another directory you would use rm /path/to/the/file/file_1.txt

if the file is own by another user such as root you will need to use sudo in front of the rm command

so to delete your file sudo rm /restart.txt


https://www.howtogeek.com/409115/how-to ... -terminal/

[AGID]

Thanks for your fast reply but i tried sudo rm restart.txt but it didn't delete it.

[jahboater]

Thanks for your fast reply but i tried sudo rm restart.txt but it didn't delete it.

Is restart.txt in your current directory?

[DougieLawson]

Thanks for your fast reply but i tried sudo rm restart.txt but it didn't delete it.

Is restart.txt in your current directory?

Has your SDCard failed to a read-only status?
What happens if you run touch /home/pi/test.file; sudo reboot then after the reboot is complete run cat /home/pi/test.file?

[pcmanbob]

Thanks for your fast reply but i tried sudo rm restart.txt but it didn't delete it.

You said the file was in root assuming that is the root directory and you are in the default /home/pi directory you need to add the path.

So as I posted before try sudo rm /restart.txt

Adding the / this time, failing that please post the exact path to the file you want to delete.

[AGID]

It was problem with file explorer so i had to reload it and it worked. Thanks for all the help.