SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/clri
special
i-number
...
DESCRIPTION
The
clri
command clears the inode
i-number
by filling it with zeros.
special
must be a special file name referring to a device containing a file system.
For proper results,
special
should not be mounted (see
WARNINGS
below).
After
clri
is executed, all blocks in the affected file show up as "missing" in an
fsck
of
special
(see
fsck(1M)).
This command should only be used in emergencies.
Read and write permission is required on the specified
special
device.
The inode becomes allocatable.
WARNINGS
The primary purpose of this command is to remove a file that
for some reason does not appear in any directory.
If it is used to clear an inode that does appear in a directory,
care should be taken to locate the entry and remove it.
Otherwise, when the inode is reallocated to some new file,
the old entry in the directory will still point to that file.
At that point, removing the old entry destroys the new file,
causing the new entry to point to an unallocated inode, so the
whole cycle is likely to be repeated again.
If the file system is mounted,
clri
is likely to be ineffective.
DEPENDENCIES
clri
operates only on file systems of type
hfs.
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
clri: SVID2, SVID3
