Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!sactoh0!tree!root
From: root@tree.UUCP (Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: SysV directory file is garbaged & I can't rm -r it.  Suggestions?
Keywords: SysV, corrupt_directory, fsck, clri
Message-ID: <289@tree.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 89 06:30:38 GMT
Organization: TREE BBS (916)-349-0385 Sacramento, Ca
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fsck made a complaint about not having a "." or ".." in I=3130 so 
I ran ncheck to get a closer look.  The directory file for /usr/spool/news/
news/misc was filled with lots of rubbish and that's it.  Obviously when I
cd misc I found I couldn't get out without cd /usr/spool/news/news.

What should I do?  There are obviously going to be news articles in that
directory; It would be nice to know of a way to save them but mainly I just
want to get rid of the cancer-ridden directory file before the problem possibly
spreads.  I tried rm -r but that (understandably) failed.

I was going to run clri but thought I'd be wise to ask advise before I get
into something over my head so for now I just did a mvdir and removed
permissions.  The contents of this directory aren't really valuable, but
for future reference it would be nice to know whether it would be a major
production to save the "contents"...perhaps with fsdb?

Please *EMAIL* advice.  Thanks.
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