Removing garbage files

Bill Irwin bill at twg.UUCP
Wed Jun 6 07:04:35 AEST 1990


In article <266B2780.3A84 at marob.masa.com> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Is it possible that there is really no file with this weird name, but
>the directory itself got bashed so that a directory slot which should
>have zeros in the inode field actually contains garbage?  Wouldn't this
>make ls think there was a file with a garbage name, but unlink would
>fail causing rm to claim the file was not found?

You  pose  a very intrigueing question.  I would like to persue  it.   My
question  is:   how do I verify that zero inodes are garbage, and if  so,
how do I fix it?
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