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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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Subject: Re: Undeletable files
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:09:35AM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> I cannot seem to delete some files that fsck can't seem to fix.

Use clri(8) to  stomp the directory that is giving  you problems, then
run fsck again.  Repeat until the filesystem is clean.

Then find your backup :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org

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