From: Glen Davison (glen@maths.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 19 2004 - 02:19:02 EDT
Q: How can I delete a hard-link to quota.user or quota.group?
BKG: I wrote and ran a perl script which made hard-links to files recursively
throughout a directory hierarchy. Unfortunately this also included the
quota.* files at the top of the fileset. I have now inserted a test to stop
this happening again, but the damage is already done.
Once I have these new links to quota.user (let's call it 'uuu') and
quota.group ('ggg') I found that
rm uuu ggg
didn't work (failed noisily) and
rm -f uuu ggg
failed silently.
Looking through the tru64 archives, I see that people have asked several times
about deleting the quota.* files because they looked large and unneeded, but
were always mollified by the info that the files were sparse. Unfortunately
this doesn't help me.
Strangely, I thought I did manage to fix this same problem last week from an
earlier run, but I can't do it today.
Any hints appreciated
Glen
-- Glen Davison glen@maths.unsw.edu.au Computer System Administrator phone: +61 2 9385 7018 Maths, UNSW fax: +61 2 9385 7192
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