How to delete a non existant file?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 24 14:08:06 UTC 2007


On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:42:03AM -0400, Martin Duclos wrote:
> 
> 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?

Last time I saw something like that, it was a dead NFS mount that just
had to be unmounted.  This one though looks more like time to run fsck.
You probably have a corrupt directory entry that needs cleaning.

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