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From: jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Directory not removed ... Help!
Keywords: clri
Message-ID: <1354@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 89 20:27:39 GMT
References: <287@heurikon.UUCP>
Reply-To: jcm@mtunb.UUCP (was-John McMillan)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <287@heurikon.UUCP> lampman@heurikon.UUCP (Ray Lampman) writes:
>I created a few hard-linked directories on a sun3 work station and, now,
>can't find any way to remove them. All of the directories are empty.
...
>36487 drwxrwxr-x  3 lampman  users  1024 Dec 29 11:54 xx.0
>36487 drwxrwxr-x  3 lampman  users  1024 Dec 29 11:54 xx.1
> 7377 drwxrwxr-x  4 lampman  users  1024 Dec 29 11:59 yy.0
> 7377 drwxrwxr-x  4 lampman  users  1024 Dec 29 11:59 yy.1
> 7377 drwxrwxr-x  4 lampman  users  1024 Dec 29 11:59 yy.2

I.	I tried E-mailing to you, but was refused.
	Apologies to other readers.

II	The following are just suggestions -- your best advice
	will come from a SUN guru.

III	In the old, Version-6 days -- circa 10 years ago -- a typical
	hacker's procedure might have involved:
	1)	Take your system to Single-User mode;
	2)	"cd" to "/";
	3)	Dismount all your disks and properly shutdown any
			daemons and unrequired tasks;
	4)	Use "/etc/clri" to ZERO-out the inodes:
			  clri  {RAW-filesystemname} 36487 7377
	5)	reboot:
	  5a)	-- if the repairs were on ROOTDEV, then force
			a REBOOT-WITHOUT-SYNC and let FSCK fix it up.
	  5b)	-- otherwise: host the party yourself and control FSCK:
			fsck {RAW-filesystemname}
	  5c)	-- otherwise: reboot gracefully, and let FSCK fix it up.

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	** CAVEAT: READ your manuals until you understand the above.**
	**    I am providing a suggestion I WOULD PERFORM, but NOT  **
	**    necessarily one YOU SHOULD PERFORM.                   **
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	Your system should provide a better way, if it's going to
	allow linked directories (yetch).

JC McMillan	-- att!mtunb!jcm	-- just muttering a PERSONAL opinion...