Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!xicom!alex
From: alex@xicom.uucp (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: corrupted files
Message-ID: <1989Dec22.144927.28752@xicom.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 89 14:49:27 GMT
References: <840@stsim.ocs.com>
Reply-To: alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Organization: Xicom Products Group, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
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In article <840@stsim.ocs.com> glenn@stsim (glenn ford) writes:
>I am running SCO386 2.3.1, and have a problem.  There are several (15-20)
>corrupted files in my root directory that I can't seem to delete.  I have
>tried 'rm -i *', but when I come across the corrupted file it just says
>non-existent, and goes onto the next file.  Is there a way to delete these
>files?? In prvious problems such as this I would do rm -r, but I can do
>it this time since the bad files are in the ROOT directory.  Any help
>would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

(I hope you have an up-to-date backup before you try anything)

This sounds like your '/' directory file is corrupt, not that you have
corrupted files. I first off would say that you should go into
maintenance mode and run 'fsck.' If that doesn't find any problems, then
I think you should check that the inodes that those
files show are in actual use. They shouldn't be. You could create
enough null files in /tmp through a shell script so that those inodes
are in use, and then 'rm' the ones in / and then the ones in /tmp.

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