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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: a dir which is not possible to delete
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Feb29.222339.11776@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:23:39 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <725.6630T801T2695@sn.no> <1996Feb27.225713.14098@scala.scala.com> <1003.6632T1308T2213@sn.no>
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- In <1003.6632T1308T2213@sn.no>, frodebh@sn.no (Frode Bakkeslett Hagen) writes:
- >
- >Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
-
- >>Have you tried:
-
- >Yes. The dir is empty, but in dos I still get the message that it
- >isn't.
-
- Just because you can't see the contents, doesn't mean the directory is
- necessarily empty. If there's something mis-hashed (which DiskSalv
- should catch in Repair mode), you may not see it. On DC-FFS
- partitions, there's also some evil stuff to be had if the cache
- gets out of sync with the directory structure. DiskSalv doesn't catch
- all possible problems here.
-
- Also, the shareware version of DiskSalv may miss a thing or two that's
- caught by the commercial version. This is not intentional crippling,
- just reflective of evolution in the program.
-
- >>> Even tried Disksalv without luck.
-
- >>DiskSalv doesn't normally delete things.
-
- >I used repair mode. The dir didn't go away.
-
- DiskSalv wouldn't remove it unless there was something drastically
- wrong with the directory block itself. If DiskSalv finds some problem
- with the directory block structure, it'll recreate it from the disk
- scan. If it finds something illegal in the directory itself, it may
- delete that item (it's still on disk, just no longer linked into the
- directory structure).
-
- > Used salvage mode, so I could delete the dir manually.
-
- Salvage mode doesn't have that function. Sure you're using DiskSalv?
-
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