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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Strange file system error
Message-ID: <18604@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 05:11:03 GMT
References: <59505@linus.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <59505@linus.UUCP> ccel@community-chest.uucp (CCEL) writes:
>... I discovered one day that I had a directory on my disk that had no
>. or .. files in it. ...  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. [system is A/UX]

This indicates a bug in fsck.  Certainly the clri+fsck approach should
have worked.  A manual fsck (that is, without the -p `preen' option)
should complain about the directory and offer to either fix it (by
adding . and .. entries) or remove it.

The other possible way to remove it is to use /etc/unlink (if you have
it; if not, compile a one-line C program

	main() { exit(unlink("/the/bad/directory")); }

and run that).  In any case, complain to Apple.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
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