>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Windsor <windsor@punk.weru.ksu.edu> writes:


Rob> Oddly enough, exactly two weeks ago, I had to unlink a directory to
Rob> get a partition limping along enough to get the system to boot multi-user
Rob> so that I could pull backup-tape data in from another machine.

Would clri(8) followed by fsck(8) taken care of this problem for you?
(If you started out single user/disk unmounted, that should have done
it, no?)

==John