[GRASS-user] g.remove of vector without table

[patrick s.]

Thank you, Markus

The manual deleting was helpful. I can't exclude that the disk was full, 
due to temporary files in parallel processes, but it would be 
surprising. However didn't have problems since.

Regards,

Patrick




On 11.08.2017 11:44, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Dear Patrick,
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:55 AM, patrick s. <patrick_gis at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> Can s.o. help me to remove "broken" vector-files which have no table
>> connected ?
>>
>> g.remove type=vect name=mytable -f => ERROR: Unable to read header file of
>> vector map
>>
>> Tables have been deleted beforehand to allow '--overwrite' in PostgreSQL.
> probably something else got damaged, too (an "Unable to read header
> file..." error should not happen related to deleting of tables). Maybe
> temporarily disk full?
>
> Overall, in this special case you could simply delete the broken
> vector map using a file manager and remove the related files from the
> mapset/vector/name_of_map/
>
> Best,
> Markus