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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: int link(const int inode, const char *name2)
To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:42:59 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <4qn6te$rmi@twwells.com> from "T. William Wells" at Jun 24, 96 07:04:14 pm
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> : I've accidentally unlinked a file (or rather, had it unlinked for me by gzip
> : -- still my mistake) from the directory it was in.  The file is, however,
> : still open.  If I can get the inode (downloading lsof now), is it possible
> : to link it to the directory again?
> 
> When you unlink a file, the inode doesn't get modified, except to
> update the link count (and inode modification time). If you crash
> your machine by hitting reset, the inode will still be on disk but
> with a zero reference count. In _theory_ fsck will detect this
> and put the file in lost+found.

If you *manually* fsck.  The default is to *clear* the inode.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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