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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How do you delete files that are seemingly missing inodes? Post 302282829 by jaffachamp on Monday 2nd of February 2009 01:40:49 AM
Old 02-02-2009
Yeah, same results as trying to manually rm them.
Code:
$ ls
Andre?? 3000 Feat. Kelis  Les Mise??rables  ???????????? ???  ??????????????????  ???????????????
$ find . -print -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
.
/bin/rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
find: ./????????????: No such file or directory
find: ./Andr? 3000 Feat. Kelis: No such file or directory
find: ./??????????: No such file or directory
find: ./???????? ??: No such file or directory
find: ./Les Mis?rables: No such file or directory
$ ls
Andre?? 3000 Feat. Kelis  Les Mise??rables  ???????????? ???  ??????????????????  ???????????????

I hope there is an easy answer. So far, the only thing I can think of is a bit drastic: somehow forcibly orphan the files/directory or remove their references from the directory structure and let fsck handle the aftermath---although I have no clue how to do that.
 

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fsirand

fsirand(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       fsirand(1M)

NAME

       fsirand - install random inode generation numbers

SYNOPSIS

       fsirand [-p] special

DESCRIPTION

       fsirand installs random inode generation numbers on all the inodes on device special, and also installs a file system ID in the superblock.
       This helps increase the security of file systems exported by NFS.

       fsirand must be used only on an unmounted file system that has been checked with fsck(1M) The only exception is that it can be used on  the
       root file system in single-user mode, if the system is immediately re-booted afterwards.

OPTIONS

       -p    Print out the generation numbers for all the inodes, but do not change the generation numbers.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of fsirand when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       fsck(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.11							    16 Sep 1996 						       fsirand(1M)
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