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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 1998 20:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk damage
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411204421.410D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199804120139.UAA02518@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> Chuck Robey said:
> > 
> > rm: usr/src/usr.bin: Bad file descriptor
> > rm: usr/src/usr.sbin: Bad file descriptor
> > [extra error list, about 8, removed]
> > 
> > I tried to do an ls of those directories, and got:
> > 
> > ls: usr.bin: Bad file descriptor
> > ls: usr.sbin: Bad file descriptor
> > 
> > Should I continue to delete these guys, and if so, how?
> > 
> Try doing fsck after the attempted rm commands.  Make sure that
> you reboot with -s, before the additional fsck commands.

Thanks.  I finally got desperate enough to try fsdb (after doing many
cycles of rm/fsck's with no effect) and that did it.  I had a bunch of
directories pointing to inode 0.

> 
> -- 
> John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.
> 
> 

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