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

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:12:25 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
wrote:

> 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.  :-)

Merely an illustration of the equivalent to SET FILE/NODIRECTORY.

-- 
Bob Eager