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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
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Subject: Re: Help in removing corrupt directory !
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Date: 23 Jan 91 15:23:28 GMT
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In article <36066@netnews.upenn.edu> hpc@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Hua Pei Chen) writes:
>[...]  
>I have also 
>tried "clri" and "fsck" the filesystem, "clri" does not recognize the
>negative inode, and "fsck" can not salvage the corrupt directory.  Besides
>scratching the whole file system and restore it, is there another way to
>physically remove this corrupted directory(file)? 

Try moving all the stuff in the directory to someplace else and then 'clri'
the directory followed by fsck.  Be careful not to move the bogus file 
when you move the stuff out of the directory.

Mike



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