1.\" $OpenBSD: clri.8,v 1.13 2007/08/06 19:16:05 sobrado Exp $ 2.\" $NetBSD: clri.8,v 1.2 1995/03/18 14:54:31 cgd Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993 5.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)clri.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 32.\" 33.Dd $Mdocdate: August 6 2007 $ 34.Dt CLRI 8 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm clri 38.Nd clear inodes 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm clri 41.Ar special_device inode_number ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Bf -symbolic 44.Nm 45is obsoleted for normal file system repair work by 46.Xr fsck 8 . 47.Ef 48.Pp 49.Nm 50zeros out the inodes with the specified inode numbers 51on the filesystem residing on the given 52.Ar special_device . 53The 54.Xr fsck 8 55utility is usually run after 56.Nm 57to reclaim the zero'ed inodes and the 58blocks previously claimed by those inodes. 59Both read and write permission are required on the specified 60.Ar special_device . 61.Pp 62The primary purpose of this routine 63is to remove a file which 64for some reason is not being properly handled by 65.Xr fsck 8 . 66Once removed, 67it is anticipated that 68.Xr fsck 8 69will be able to clean up the resulting mess. 70.Sh SEE ALSO 71.Xr inode 5 , 72.Xr fsck 8 , 73.Xr fsdb 8 , 74.Xr ncheck 8 75.Sh BUGS 76If the file is open, the work of 77.Nm 78will be lost when the inode is written back to disk from the inode cache. 79