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From: ddh@shade.UUCP (Dave Hale)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Cyclic directories (i-nodes) on the UNIX pc filesystem.
Keywords: fsck, i-nodes
Message-ID: <1502@shade.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 15:17:39 GMT
References: <1021@icus.islp.ny.us>
Reply-To: ddh@shade.UUCP (Dave Hale)
Organization: Ripley Computing/Consulting Services (Ripley, MI)
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In article <1021@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
> 
> Around and around... How did this happen in the first place?  I guess
> the only way to get rid of this is using (/etc/clri) and clear the
> i-node, and then fsck the root partition again.
> 
> -Lenny

  I had the same thing happen to my system a couple of years ago.  I never did
figure out what had caused it, but after along time fiddling with it I finally
decided that /etc/clri was the only solution to the problem.  fsck seemed to be
able to straighten everything out afterwards.

  Good Luck!
  - Dave
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ddh@surak.uucp (David Hale)