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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:14:12PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:

> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  1024 Apr 12 10:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Apr 12 10:06 ..
> drwxr--r--  4 root  wheel     0 Apr 12 09:51 gail
> p4# chflags -R noschg gail
> p4# rm -r gail
> rm: gail: Directory not empty
> p4# rm gail
> rm: gail: is a directory
> p4# rmdir gail
> rmdir: gail: Directory not empty
> p4#
>=20
> The obvious problem is that the number of links is incorrect but I don't=
=20
> know how to make that right.
>=20
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

Unmount the filesystem and run fsck to repair the filesystem
corruption.

Kris

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