On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:49:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Sounds like a case where directly editing the underlying device, to > modify inode-or-equivalent contents such that the slash is no longer > there, might even be *advisable*.
Yeah, some sort of direct hex-edit on the unmounted file system's device might be the only way to rename the file. But I was not going to attempt that, back then... I was just a consultant, not even an employee. And I wouldn't have known where to look for a disk-hex-editor for HP-UX 9 or whatever it was at the time. There certainly wouldn't have been one included with the OS. Not to mention, you'd have to take the file system offline, and since it's a shared NFS file system, that means potentially a *lot* of work being disrupted.
