Clri(1M): Clri - HP B2355-92068 Administration Manual

clri(1M)
NAME
clri - clear inode
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/clri special i-number
DESCRIPTION
The command clears the inode i-number by filling it with zeros. special must be a special file name
clri
referring to a device containing a file system. For proper results, special should not be mounted (see
WARNINGS below). After
of special (see fsck(1M)). This command should only be used in emergencies.
fsck
Read and write permission is required on the specified special device. The inode becomes allocatable.
WARNINGS
The primary purpose of this command is to remove a file that for some reason does not appear in any direc-
tory. If it is used to clear an inode that does appear in a directory, care should be taken to locate the entry
and remove it. Otherwise, when the inode is reallocated to some new file, the old entry in the directory will
still point to that file. At that point, removing the old entry destroys the new file, causing the new entry to
point to an unallocated inode, so the whole cycle is likely to be repeated again.
If the file system is mounted,
DEPENDENCIES
operates only on file systems of type
clri
SEE ALSO
fsck(1M), fsdb(1M), ncheck(1M).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
clri: SVID2, SVID3
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is executed, all blocks in the affected file show up as "missing" in an
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is likely to be ineffective.
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