I had 4 people reply and they all said the same thing:
unmunt the file system
use "clri"
use "fsck"
remount
No one told me to RTFM, although I should have. I was not aware of
clri before now. The manual does say that clri is superseded by
fsck for normal file system repair so my problem must be classified
as abnormal. I have not tried this yet as the file system is on our
main server but the above solution should work.
Thanks to the following sun-managers:
Kevin Thomas
John Blasik
Matt Crawford
smb@ulysses.att.com
Pete (shipley@remarque.berleley.edu)
I will include my original posting at the end since its so long.
Jay Williamson, Systems Manager Clemson University
jaysun@cs.clemson.edu Computer Science Dept.
(803) 656-5884 Clemson, S.C. 29634-1906
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About 2 weeks ago I noticed that my finds from cron where returning a message
saying that it couldn't find a file. I went looking and found a directory
that had some files in it, a ".." and a "?" . There was no ".".
I unlinked that directory after saving the correct files and then put
everything back. I knew that that unlinked directory would be put in
lost+found but I didn't realize that fsck would not get rid of it.
fsck will ask if you want it unlinked, you answer yes, but it's still there.
I kindof see why since it seems recursive in some way.
Here is an "ls -lRi #183540" redirected into a file. It is not complete
because I interupted the redirection with a <ctrl c>. It seems to be
infinite. I have no idea how the original was created but I hope
someone can
(1) help me get rid of it.
(2) Tell me how something like this could be allowed to happen
Details:
Sun 4/280 running SunOS 4.1
serves as files server to all types of Sun3s and Sun4s running from
SunOS 4.0.3 to SunOS 4.1.1. Also, one 386i running SunOS 4.0.2.
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