1.\" $NetBSD: clri.8,v 1.6 2001/06/05 11:22:43 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)clri.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 35.\" 36.Dd April 19, 1994 37.Dt CLRI 8 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm clri 41.Nd clear an inode 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Ar special_device inode_number ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Bf -symbolic 47.Nm 48is obsoleted for normal file system repair work by 49.Xr fsck 8 . 50.Ef 51.Pp 52.Nm 53zeros out the inodes with the specified inode number(s) 54on the filesystem residing on the given 55.Ar special_device . 56The 57.Xr fsck 8 58utility is usually run after 59.Nm 60to reclaim the zero'ed inode(s) and the 61blocks previously claimed by those inode(s). 62Both read and write permission are required on the specified 63.Ar special_device . 64.Pp 65The primary purpose of this routine 66is to remove a file which 67for some reason is not being properly handled by 68.Xr fsck 8 . 69Once removed, 70it is anticipated that 71.Xr fsck 8 72will be able to clean up the resulting mess. 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr fsck 8 , 75.Xr fsdb 8 76.Sh BUGS 77If the file is open, the work of 78.Nm 79will be lost when the inode is written back to disk from the inode cache. 80