How to delete a non existant file?

[Kareem Shehata]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Martin
> Duclos
> Sent: Sunday 23 September 2007 10:42
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: [TLUG]: How to delete a non existant file?
> 
> 
> I have a directory that contains a file
> ?---------   ? ?       ?            ?            ? 1184898963.V901I2e6138
> I can't delete this file. I can't delete the directory either. I'm think a
> file system check might fix it but I'd rather not have to take the system
> down. It's a remote server and I don't have physical access to it. I has
> no inode, no permission, no owner. I suspect this happened when the box
> went down because of bad ram a while back. Any ideas?

Definitely sounds like filesystem corruption.  I'm not certain, but
depending on the type of filesystem you might be able to run a read-only
check just to determine if there are errors and where they are.  Don't think
you'll be able to fix it without taking down the FS.

Goodluck!

-kms


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