From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 22:21:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA11796 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA11762 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA00151; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:21:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA27097; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:21:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id HAA04948; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:16:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601100616.HAA04948@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: can't rm /compat To: tulchins@voland.phoebe.com (Steven Tulchinsky) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:16:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601091415.OAA00770@voland.phoebe.com> from "Steven Tulchinsky" at Jan 9, 96 02:15:39 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Steven Tulchinsky wrote: > > After last crash I managed to recover but probably > did something wrong using fsck and it created in place > of /compat directory, very strange file > b---rw-r-- 1 944581969 911628861 56, 1313538113 Dec 29 1976 compat > which I can't remove and replace with original directory. Either try to run chflags on it (chflags noschg for example), or simply clri(8) the i-node, and re-run fsck. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)