[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Bob Koehler]

In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-FlwW64uqhixG at rikki.tavi.co.uk>, "Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> 
> Unix just does it a different way. You can wipe the inode for the 
> directory, thus orphaning the file, and then an fsck will pick up the 
> files and put them in /lost+found.

   What UNIX tool do I use to wipe the inode for a directory?  Generally
   rm won't unlink an inode for a directory and rmdir won't unlink one
   that isn't empty.  Even if I "rm -f" I would expect it to fail in
   this case.