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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Duplicate '..' in /lib
To: adam@eax.com (Adam)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk (Alex Buell),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Mailing List - Linux Kernel)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107160009260.25850-100000@eax.student.umd.edu> from "Adam" at Jul 16, 2001 12:11:39 AM
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Adam writes:

>> /lib
>>    4 drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 Jun  9 16:06 ..
>>    4 -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           27 Jun  9 15:55 ..
>>
>> How can I get rid of this? I'm on kernel 2.2.19, running on sparc-linux.
>
> first it is not a pair directories, but a directory and a file.
> 
> second, are you sure both of the mare just ".." for example

I don't think so! Look at the "4" on the left. If that is the
inode number from "ls -lia /lib", his disk is seriously messed up.
The inode number for "/lib/.." should be 2, and an inode may not
be shared between a file and a directory.

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