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From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
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Subject: Re: File remove command?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.121819.29579@prl.dec.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 12:18:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.050747.1436@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>, det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>> 
> If you don't have "-inum" you could, as root, use "ff /dev/rdsk/? | grep 397"
> to find the file belonging to that inode.  Then remove it.  See ff(1) and
> find(1) in the FM.

If you really want to do this, aren't you better off using ncheck(8)?
It should be fairly standard.  Admittedly the file-system to block-special
mapping may be a bit of pain, but the basic premise of this thread is too.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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