Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Help in removing corrupt directory !
Message-ID: <1204@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 24 Jan 91 06:00:31 GMT
References: <36066@netnews.upenn.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 20

In article <36066@netnews.upenn.edu> hpc@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Hua Pei Chen) writes:

|	I would like to have some advice on how to remove a corrupt
|directory in a file system....
|The directory itself
|seems to be fine, but it contains a file with a very long name
|("m[[bbmm...").  The i-number for this file is a negative number, so the
|file is totally transparent.  Both rm -r and rmdir failed.  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)?

First, move any files under this directory that you need, then clri
the directory inode.  A following fsck should take out both the
directory and the corrupt file.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis
Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386)