At 11:47 AM -0700 12/16/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:18 AM, D Stubbs wrote: > >> Last login: Tue Dec 16 10:12:20 on ttyp1 >> Welcome to Darwin! >> Rocky-Woodys-Computer:~ rockywoody$ cd / >> Rocky-Woodys-Computer:/ rockywoody$ ls -al >> total 10729 >> drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin 1428 16 Dec 08:34 . >> drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin 1428 16 Dec 08:34 . > > drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin 1428 16 Dec 08:34 .. > >Holy crap...this is going to be a bit more difficult than I thought.
whoa. yea. What he said. I've never seen that before! >You do seem to have two identical '.' directories at the root of the >drive; no additional characters showed up. > >They have to have different inode numbers or they would not (in >theory) show up twice, but this is getting into "Let me repair myself >to Google for a while" before I come up with an answer. Unless you find something simple, my instinct is to go for the sledgehammer. That volume cannot be trusted, so back up the user files, nuke, and repave. Do it NOW before the xtra .sinkhole swallows the universe. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
