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From: daedalus!kovar%husc4@talcott.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Can't remove files from a 386i
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Date: 14 Dec 88 17:02:01 GMT
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Original-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 88 16:36:15 -0500
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 53, message 12 of 12

I've been using my Sun386i as a file server for my Mac using a Cayman
GatorBox. Somewhere along the line, it created some files that the system
did not like. Through some mechanism that I've since forgotten, I managed
to get rid of them. Unfortunately, they reappeared when I used fsck.  Here
is the system's respose to my inquiries about the files and my attempts to
remove them:

Script started on Sat Dec  3 16:24:05 1988
{daedalus:SUPERUSER:4} ls lost+found
#006191/  #089126/
{daedalus:SUPERUSER:5} ls lost+found/#006191
lost+found/#006191/arpa/nameser.h not found
lost+found/#006191/%arpa/nameser.h not found
{daedalus:SUPERUSER:6} ls lost+found/#089126
lost+found/#089126/arpa/nameser.h not found
lost+found/#089126/%arpa/nameser.h not found
lost+found/#089126/net/if.h not found
lost+found/#089126/%net/if.h not found
lost+found/#089126/netinet/in.h not found
lost+found/#089126/%netinet/in.h not found
{daedalus:SUPERUSER:7} rm -rf lost+found/*
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#006191, nameser.h, arpa/nameser.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#006191, nameser.h, %arpa/nameser.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, nameser.h, arpa/nameser.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, nameser.h, %arpa/nameser.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, if.h, net/if.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, if.h, %net/if.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, in.h, netinet/in.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, in.h, %netinet/in.h
rm: internal synchronization error: lost+found/#089126, errno.h, sys/errno.h
{daedalus:SUPERUSER:8} unlink lost+found/#006191
{daedalus:SUPERUSER:9} ls lost+found
#006191/  #089126/

Any suggestions on how to remove these files would be appreciated.

-David Kovar
 Technical Consultant
 Harvard University

[[ That could be tricky.  Those files look like directories that got
unlinked.  I suspect that they still exist as directories, but the files
that used to be contained in the directories are gone.  You could try
clearing the two inodes for these files (6191 and 89126) with "clri" and
then run another fsck (both with the partition unmounted if possible).
You might get more lost files, so just iterate this process until
everything gets straightened out.  You should probably do this in single
user mode, I would think.  No guarantees on this advice---use at your own
risk.  --wnl ]]