CLRI(C)                  XENIX System V                   CLRI(C)



     Name
          clri - Clears inode.

     Syntax
          /etc/clri file-system i-number ...

     Description
          clri writes zeros on the 64 bytes occupied by the inode
          numbered i-number.  File-system must be a special filename
          referring to a device containing a file system.  After clri
          is executed, any blocks in the affected file will show up as
          ``missing'' if the file system is checked with fsck(C).  Use
          clri only in emergencies and exercise extreme care.

          Read and write permission is required on the specified
          file-system device.  The inode becomes allocatable.

          The primary purpose of this routine is to remove a file
          which, for some reason, does not appear in a directory. If
          you use clri to destroy an inode which does appear in a
          directory, track down the entry and remove it.  Otherwise,
          when the inode is reallocated to some new file, the old
          entry will still point to this file.  At that point removing
          the old entry will destroy the new file.  The new entry will
          again point to an unallocated inode, so the whole cycle is
          likely to be repeated again and again.

     See Also
          fsck(C), ncheck(C)

     Notes
          If the file is open, clri is likely to be ineffective.























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