lampman@heurikon.UUCP (Ray Lampman) (01/05/89)
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.
{shell-prompt} ls -alig
total 7
25622 drwxrwxr-x 4 lampman users 512 Dec 29 12:03 .
35290 drwxr-xr-x 8 lampman users 512 Jan 4 16:03 ..
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
Even root execution of rm and rmdir fails. Am I missing some obscure
option to rm or rmdir? I've exausted my local resources, I think. Then
again, I may just be blind. I hope not. :-) Thanks in advance, Ray.
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solar power supply, and a little shade. | {husc6,rutgers}!uwvax!heurikon!lampmandebra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) (01/06/89)
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. >... >Even root execution of rm and rmdir fails. Am I missing some obscure >option to rm or rmdir? I've exausted my local resources, I think. Then >again, I may just be blind. I hope not. :-) Thanks in advance, Ray. Fsck never liked hard-linked directories... So you should never create them. Some Unix systems luckily have a program /etc/unlink which should be able to unlink anything that the unlink system call can unlink. (I think you need /etc/link to create these bogus hard links too, anyway, it used to be that way on an old System III system I once used.) Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------
jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan) (01/06/89)
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. ************************************************************** ** CAVEAT: READ your manuals until you understand the above.** ** I am providing a suggestion I WOULD PERFORM, but NOT ** ** necessarily one YOU SHOULD PERFORM. ** ************************************************************** 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...