duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:

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>longer a valid directiry because . isn't first and .. isn't second.  That's
>all fine and dandy but now, I can't remove it from my drive.  rmdir says that
>the directory is not empty and rm says -rf says that device 0304 (or 0403,
>whichever it is) contains an invalid directory and won't remove it.

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>What do I do now?

You'd think fsck would handle this, but for some reason Linus hasn't
felt safe in doing so.  What I've done in the past is to build a
kernel that lets you unlink directories.  Running that kernel I then
remove the bad directory, and then run fsck to recover the space and
inodes.  Look for the routine minix_unlink in
/usr/src/linux/fs/minix/namei.c.  Remove the code

    if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) 
        goto end_unlink.

Once you're running that kernel, make yourself a utility "unlink":

  main (argc, argv)
        int argc;
        char **argv;
 { if (argc > 0)
        unlink(argv[1])
 };

Use that to remove the bad directory.  Now run fsck.  (By the way,
although I've done this a couple of times in the past, I haven't kept
copies of my old changes, so I'm giving you this without having tested
it.  That is, I know the method works, but there could be a typo in
what I'm giving you.)