Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 04:00:11 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel Message-ID: <36F1BDBB.E9E4F323@eboa.com> References: <19990303195632.B441@lemis.com> <36DDBFEB.86D89D20@eboa.com> <19990304095813.I441@lemis.com> <36DDEFFD.A4DB4978@eboa.com> <19990304130126.B441@lemis.com> <36DE0352.E99BCB70@eboa.com> <19990316174710.H429@lemis.com> <36EE54A4.8DC53017@eboa.com> <19990317093436.G429@lemis.com> <36EFC56A.ACBFB0A7@eboa.com> <19990318100818.L429@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Hm. Same of course with 'rm -f PLIST'. Can't even rename it. Something's > > fishy in the state of Denmark (to quote Inspector Clouseau). > > Looks like it's time to learn to use fsdb. I've never used it myself, > but from the man page you should be able to go in there and remove the > entries. Pretty much a straightforward operation. You cd to the directory and rm the file by name. Then I did a fsck which wanted to reconnect an inode. Went back in with fsdb and there it was again <g>. Deleted it again and fsck'd to find it truly gone. Well, let's hope that was the last of it, crash aftermath that is. Constructive (intended :) criticisms: One thing is that when fsdb comes up it does so with the message: /dev/wd0s1g is not a character device CONTINUE? [yn] I mean, I thought that was the whole point of the excercise. To manipulate a block device's inode tables. So why ask confusing questions when they are clearly superfluous. The man page doesn't mention it. This message sounds like a warning that you're about to do something quite foolish. Like, doesn't everybody know you can only use it with fifo devices... Usually one presents such messages to warn folk that the device given is not of the type normally used. To wit, a character device. Also it ends with: No entry for terminal type "cons25" using dumb terminal settings Which of course leads one to believe it comes complete with a fancy visual editor. Point and shoot file system manipulation. Microsoft eat your heart out kind of thing. Whereas I don't think that is the case. In fact, I would be mighty - but pleasantly so - surprised to learn that it was. Also, I think most uses will be in single user mode with nada but the root mounted. So why bother searching for a terminal type at all? Hm. Come to think of it. termcap is in /etc and was part of the root device. So why didn't it find cons25? Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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