root@tree.UUCP (Admin) (04/29/89)
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. -------- ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!tree!root ames!pacbell!sactoh0!tree!root
rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) (05/02/89)
"unlink" the directory and then "fsck" it. There are no checks involved with use of /etc/unlink. the fsck will deposit anything in can recover in lost+found on that file system. Enjoy, Rob.