dave@well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) (01/16/89)
I really screwed up while trying to free up over 3000 blocks of disk space occupied by /usr/man - the online xenix manual. I tried mvdir but moved it to /u1, not only another file system but anoter drive! The top directroy moved, but of course none of thefiles, and when I rebooted, the directory disappeared but the df command showed the 3000 blocks still tied up! How can I free up that space - everything that was in subdirectyroy /usr/man? I tried using custom to remove the package, but that didn't work, I tried reinstalling the man package but that just took up more space. So what do I do to get that space back? (someone who now reads the finest print int he shortest docs - like terse 'mvdir'. Dave Hughes hplabs!well!dave
debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) (01/17/89)
In article <10368@well.UUCP> dave@well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes: >I really screwed up while trying to free up over 3000 blocks of disk >space occupied by /usr/man - the online xenix manual. I tried >mvdir but moved it to /u1, not only another file system but >anoter drive! The top directroy moved, but of course >none of thefiles, and when I rebooted, the directory disappeared >but the df command showed the 3000 blocks still tied up! >How can I free up that space - everything that was in subdirectyroy >/usr/man? Sounds like mvdir is braindead, not you. mvdir should refuse to move a directory to another file system. What it did now seems like trashing your file system. Xenix may not know that your file system is garbled because you shut down your machine gracefully i suppose, but you should run fsck. That should find the lost information unless it is also braindead. Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------
skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) (01/17/89)
Have you tried booting up in maintenance mode and running fsck on the damaged filesystems? Rich Skrenta
deraadt@xenlink.UUCP (Theo A. DeRaadt) (01/18/89)
In article <10368@well.UUCP>, dave@well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
#
# I really screwed up while trying to free up over 3000 blocks of disk
# space occupied by /usr/man - the online xenix manual. I tried
# mvdir but moved it to /u1, not only another file system but
# anoter drive! The top directroy moved, but of course
# none of thefiles, and when I rebooted, the directory disappeared
# but the df command showed the 3000 blocks still tied up!
# How can I free up that space - everything that was in subdirectyroy
# /usr/man?
I wish this stuff worked like in BSD. I actually did this once before
and lost a bunch too. I think an fsck cleaned up.
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