Bug in rm?

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1 total messages Started by Laurent Amon Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:42

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Author: Laurent Amon
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:42

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OK, I use a perl script that daily backs up the user directories to my
(small) internal drive. It uses zip. Yesterday, one of the user directories 
was so large that the zip temporary file filled up the disk. And I mean
filled up completely, since it was running as root, it completely ate
the reserved space. Zip exited with an error and left a temporary file 
lying around. 

So I rm'ed it. It removed the directory entry but did not unlink it. It left an  
unreferenced inode in the table, and I had to fsck to get back my disk space.

My guess is that rm fails if the free list pointer is null. Did anybody else  
have that problem? Can somebody corroborate?

Lga.
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