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On 3 August 2012 13:38, Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- >> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Hill >> >> I thought dpns-rm was the right tool, but when I tried it on one of >> the files I'm trying to remove I got a "File Exists" message, which >> confused me sufficiently to make me think that it wasn't trying to do the >> correct thing. At least I now know I'm on the right track. >> > I think we usually wind up using rfrm for this, so the basic > sequence of events is to use dpm-disk-to-dpns to get a list of > everything that used to be on the dead filesystem, then split > the lines in that output to give you just a list of the DPNS > names (it gives you the filesystem paths as well), then rfrm > the files by DPNS name. I have a vague recollection of doing > something properly handle files that have multiple replicas, > but I've just been looking for the details of that and haven't > found it yet. > I'm fairly sure I did write something to do this. (For multiple replicas, dpns-delreplica should work, if you know which replica you want to remove, as it was written for this by Greig.) Sam > Ewan