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

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Mon Apr 27 17:23:12 EDT 2009


In article <75m69hF18neh6U1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> How?  Opening my hood doesn't brea anything.  But this is asking, "How do
> I manually trash my filesystem so fsck can fix it?"  Why would one ever
> "want" to remove a file without doing it in a manner that let's the system
> do it cleanly?  (Hint:  In 30 years of admining Unix systems I have never
> needed to use clri.)

   We were talking about something to be done in response to a broken
   filesystem.  In particular removing a directory file which contains 
   corrupt data due to a block read error and recovering files that
   weren't entered into any other directory.




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