On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:05:40PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > But understandable, since an unreferenced file with zero link count is
> > usually a file that "doesn't exist" as far as the filesystem namespace
> > goes, referenceable only by processes that have it open somehow.
> 
> But that doesn't mean you don't want it. (Cf, huge file,
> accidentally rm'ed, but still open in some application. You want
> that file. Badly.)

But in this case you won't have the box reboot and let it run fsck.
Yoy will boot single user and play with fsdb.
fsck is the wrong tool for this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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