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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3 filesystem which can't be corrected?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:41:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410164100.GB5693@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F3A046.7020301@wpkg.org>

On Apr 02, 2008  17:03 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Let's see what we have there - four files with exactly the same name and 
> inode:
>
> # ls -li
> total 16
> 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14  2007 attrib
> 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14  2007 attrib
> 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14  2007 attrib
> 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14  2007 attrib
>
>
> Let's remove "attrib" file:
>
> # rm -f attrib
>
> Ouch:
>
> # ls
> ls: attrib: No such file or directory
> ls: attrib: No such file or directory
> ls: attrib: No such file or directory
>
> When I want to browse the directory i.e. in midnight commander (mc), it 
> shows me three files in red called "?attrib", dated 1 Jan 1970.

Looks like it has unprinting characters.  Try
find . -print0 | xargs -0 rm

> e2fsck comes from e2fsprogs 1.39 - should I try something newer?

It is usually best to use the latest version.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-02 15:03 ext3 filesystem which can't be corrected? Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-04-10 16:41 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2008-04-10 16:50   ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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