| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hi, I have a about 5 files on an ADVFS filesystem, that when you do an 'ls -l' you get 'Invalid argument' on the file. This is only when doing an 'ls -l' on the files. I can't delete or do anything with the files. If I do a 'file bookmarks.html' on the file I get 'cannot open for reading'. Interesting the 8 files that are in this funky state are all Netscape related files. One is a bookmarks.html file while the others are cached .gif files in the Netscape cache. I can't move or do anything, but Networker keeps reporting invalid argument on these files and the backups fail. Any help would be appreciated, I'm rather stumped. Thanks, Chris
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| 9466.1 | wild guess | GIDDAY::STRAUSS | talking through my binoculars | Thu Apr 10 1997 19:17 | 8 |
You didn't say whether or not a plain "ls" works, but here's a wild
guess - perhaps these filenames are listed in the parent directories,
but the files themselves don't actually exist?
Are these files all in the same domain or fileset?
perhaps msfsck might tell you something.
leon
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| 9466.2 | ls does work | MSBCS::REED | Wed Apr 16 1997 16:07 | 5 | |
Yes, just an ls in the directory shows the files fine, and they are all in the same ADVFS domain. What is msfsck, I'm not familiar with that command. Thanks, Chris | |||||
| 9466.3 | some info on msfsck and related tools | DECWET::DADDAMIO | Design Twice, Code Once | Wed Apr 16 1997 18:13 | 9 |
msfsck and vchkdir check the on-disk structures for AdvFS for versions
of Digital UNIX *before* V4.0. For V4.0 and after, they have been
combined into 1 tool called verify. There is a manpage for verify, but
I don't know if there is any for msfsck or vchkdir (they are in
/usr/field where verify is in /sbin/advfs). You can get the command
syntax for msfsck and vchkdir by issuing the command with -h. If you
specify -f or -d with vchkdir, it will try to fix up or delete files,
so you may want to run without either first to see if it finds anything
wrong.
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