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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <3+BUyWUv1642 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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.
 
"clri"

Of course, the question becomes, "Why?"  Isn't that like smashing your
carburator in order to force the mechanic to change the fuel filter.  :-)

bill

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