[SunHELP] damaged directories

Bashar sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Jan 17 01:42:39 CST 2001


	 i have the same problem i tried all ways to delte this directory
but no use even with the inode number

# find . -inum 944702 -exec rm -rf {} \;
rm: fts_read: File name too long
find: fts_read: File name too long



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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kovalev, Ivan wrote:

> You might want to try ls -liab one directory higher to get inode number of
> your problem dir along with possible nonprintable characters it might have
> in the name. Then do
> find . -inum <inode num> -exec rm -rf {} \;
> to delete this directory and all files under it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angela Pardo [mailto:apardo at sfaids.ucsf.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:56 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] damaged directories
> 
> 
> Hi...
> 
> I've had a little question.
> I seem to have a directory in a sol 2.6 machine that I cannot seem to get
> rid of.  I can cd into it but I cannot get a file listing from anywhere.
> I've unmounted the partition and fsck'ed it but I still am not able to get
> rid of it.
> 
> any suggestions on how to get rid of it?
> 
> Thanks 
> 		Angela
> 
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