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From: berger@datacube.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Confused file name in directory
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 22:55:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 22:55:00 1987
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!berger    Feb 27 22:55:00 1987


I've  got  a  similar  problem  on  a System  V.2 3b2/310.   The root
directory looks like something wrote  binary data  into the directory
file.  Here is an excerpt (there are more garbage listings as well as 
normal file listings) from an ls -li:  

total 2353
  593 -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other      14336 Feb 19 15:10 &^B6SZj^B4^\^CAR^C1
  391 -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other      14336 Feb 19 15:08 L^C^TP^AF^V^D^A^X^^
  582 -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other      14336 Feb 19 15:09 L^D^^P$^V^Cb*$^D^D^
  585 -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other      14336 Feb 19 15:09 R^Apj3 ^C^_R^Apjw
  397 -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other      14336 Feb 19 15:08 S^B^^^L^AQS^B ^L^B"

(The data has bee filtered thru see to show the binary data)

The file system seems ok, it fsck's ok and such. When I try to rm one of
these, it says that the file is non-existant and everything runs ok.

Besides dumping and restoring the file system, is there any way to clean this
up? Would it be worth using fsdb (file system debugger)?
It makes me nervous that there are a variety of inodes listed but they all have
the same file size.  Could the inode listing be noise as well?
				Bob Berger 

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