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

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