Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!haven!grebyn!macom1!rikki From: rikki@macom1.UUCP (Guru's Inc.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Black hole file Message-ID: <4796@macom1.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 89 22:28:18 GMT References: <7131@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: CENTEL Federal Systems, Reston, VA. 22091-1506 Lines: 7 It's not too surprising that you get the same inode if your system is not too busy. When you delete an inode, he's going to be at the top of the list and ends up being the next one allocated when you make the new file. Any other messages come out? You don't happen to have a space between "black" and "hole" do you? I, too, would like to see the complete output from ls and od.