Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 21:28, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in O'Reilly's _UNIX Power
> > Tools_) for removing files by inode. Trying to remember what it was or
> > in what context it worked.
>
> Unmount the filesystem, then do
>
> wh@frodo:~ > /sbin/debugfs
> debugfs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> debugfs: open -w /dev/device_with_file_system
> debugfs: clri <11>
> debugfs: quit
Mmm. I would be very circumspect about using debugfs, a typo astray...
A little story. Long ago I worked on Edition 6 of UNIX as a systems
programmer. We wrote a file system editor (this was in the days
before efsck). There was no manual page written for it..on the grounds
that (I quote my boss at the time) "You shouldn''t use it unless you could
have written it yourself"
Mmm..nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be...
Cliff
>
> wh@frodo:~ > /sbin/e2fsck -f /dev/device_with_file_system
> e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Entry 'random name' in / (2) has deleted/unused inode 11. Clear<y>? yes
> ...
>
> Use the inode number of the file you want to clear instead of 11.
>
> Walter
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