Subject: Re: Need help with crash recovery!
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/07/1998 11:58:33
aer@alpha.nodomain.net (Anders Eriksson) writes:

>I just had a (minor) crash on my / partition (no backup ;-( ) and am stuck 
>with two files which fsck has turned into devices. I can't find any way to 
>delete them. Help appreciated!

They have probably the immutable bit set.  Use "ls -ol" to see what
flags are set and see chflags(1) to turn these flags off.  It might be
necessary to do this in single user mode.

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Christoph Badura

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