[ale] How can I delete links that can't be seen by stat?

[James Sumners]

Sorry for taking so long to follow up on this. It turns out the device
was very screwed up. We're not sure what caused the corruption, but
there was not recovering from it. Had to start over with new backups.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 15:35 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
>> I did try unlink; same results.
>
> Not surprising.  It looks like the files themselves are gone but the
> directory entries were not removed.  The inode itself is gone and only
> the directory entry remains.  There's nothing for unlink to unlink.  My
> guess would be that the file system on the server needs a good fsck.
>
> Mike



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