On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Neil A. Carson wrote:

> Dunno how emacs' directory editing works, but I doubt it accesses the
> underlying FS directly. If a file is unedeletable really, you cal clear
> the inode (clri), reboot single user and force an fsck to clear up the
> messed directory.
> 

there's also fsdb(8) 

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