Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:30:59 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I remove hard links between directories? Message-ID: <199511261730.SAA11698@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199511261359.HAA01124@luke.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Nov 26, 95 07:59:32 am
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It seems that Bob Willcox said:
> created some hard links between a couple of directories on my system
> (2.1-STABLE) and I need to get rid of them. Unfortunately rmdir
> simply complains that the directory is not empty (use counts on
> these two directries is 4 rather than 2). Can someone please tell
> me a way to fix this?
Try to get a binary of fsdb from a -CURRENT system. You'll be able to do
anything you want even trashing your disk completely :-)
FSDB(8) UNIX System Manager's Manual FSDB(8)
NAME
fsdb - FFS debugging/editing tool
SYNOPSIS
fsdb [-d] -f fsname
DESCRIPTION
fsdb opens fsname (usually a raw disk partition) and runs a command loop
allowing manipulation of the file system's inode data. You are prompted
to enter a command with fsdb (inum X)> where X is the currently selected
i-number. The initial selected inode is the root of the filesystem (i-
number 2). The command processor uses the libedit(3) library, so you can
use command line editing to reduce typing if desired. When you exit the
command loop, the file system superblock is marked dirty and any buffered
blocks are written to the file system.
The -d option enables additional debugging output (which comes primarily
from fsck(8)-derived code).
COMMANDS
Besides the built-in libedit(3) commands, fsdb supports these commands:
[...]
uplink Increment the active inode's link count.
downlink
Decrement the active inode's link count.
linkcount number
Set the active inode's link count to number.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #7: Mon Nov 6 21:08:06 MET 1995
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