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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!e40-008-7.MIT.EDU!vikki From: vikki@e40-008-7.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) Subject: Re: corrupted directory, can't remove Message-ID: <1992Dec7.092011.21009@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: e40-008-7.mit.edu Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <carlp.723695363@frigg> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 09:20:11 GMT Lines: 14 Hi: After a few hours one night of trying to get fsck to fix something that just wouldn't go away, I tried booting from the fixit floppy and running fsck against the hard disk from there. In my case, that made the repair stick. : Now, fsck reports that this directory is corrupt, "salvages" it, and goes : happily on. Unfortunately, the directory is STILL corrupt, as reported by : subsequent invocations of fsck. Trying "rmdir" and "rm -rf" both report : the directory is not empty, but "ls -al" only shows . and .. : Any suggestions?