How to delete a non existant file?

[Tyler Aviss]

I've seen similar issues on buggy machines before, and I would have to
agree that it's likely corruption. You say you don't have physical
access to the box... is it yours at a remote location or is it shared
with others. If it's yours, you could just figure out whatever
drive/partition that file is under, and as noted mount it read-only
and do a check which should hopefully fix things up.

For example, if it's a file under partition /dev/hda2

mount /dev/hda2 -o remount,ro
fsck.ext3 -p /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda2 -o remount,rw

Something similar could be used to fix it up. If it's not just your
box, you'd probably want whoever locally admins it to do this.
Sometimes funky things can happen when fsck'ing a corrupted FS,
especially if it's due to hardware issues (if you still happen to have
bad RAM or a glitch somewhere, you could aggravate the problem).


Cheers,

TJA

On 9/23/07, Martin Duclos <tchitow-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> ----------------------------------------> From: kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> Subject: RE: [TLUG]: How to delete a non existant file?> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:22:40 -0400>>> -----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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> FS is ext3
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