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From: ccel@community-chest.uucp (CCEL)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Strange file system error
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Date: 15 Jul 89 01:40:51 GMT
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Organization: MITRE-McLean Software Engineering Laboratory
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I have a strange problem with my unix machine, was wondering if anyone
could help me out.  I have A/UX for my Mac II (don't laugh, please...)
and I discovered one day that I had a directory on my disk that had no
. or .. files in it.  An ls -al shows that the directory is indeed empty
(as in total 0), while an ls in it's parent directory shows that it is
a directory. 

If I do an rm it says it's a directory, rm -r says rm: Directory not 
empty. I can't mv it to another filename, mv tells me that it has a
bad inode. I tried clri to clear the i-node, then next time I ran
fsck, fsck kindly restored the i-node for me.  fsck also gives me an
error each time I run it on the entire file system (it tells me that
the directory has no . or ..), but doesn't do anything about it.

It's not really very damaging to the file system, it only takes up 48
bytes (for what, I can't imagine), but it gives an error every now
and then and annoys me a great deal. If anyone has some clever ideas,
I'd like to hear them, just send them by mail so everyone else doesn't
have to be annoyed by them.

Thanks ...

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Randy Tidd
rtidd@mitre.arpa
ccel@community-chest.UUCP