Re: bad file
On Sunday 14 October 2001 05:26, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes:
> >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms
> >
> >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on
> > ./guide.it.html
> >
> >and i cant fsck it because im not local and cant go to single user.
> >oh well, thanks for the help
>
> Maybe you don't need to go to single-user-mode, if you can just
> unmount the partition (eg if there's nothing on it your shell depends
> on)...
>
> Personally I'd try something like
> `umount /whereever; fsck.ext2 -y -c -f -v /dev/bla; mount /whereever`
>
> If you have some idea about how long a fsck usually takes, you can
> schedule a reboot for some time later. If the fsck and re-mount worked,
> you can still cancel it. `echo "reboot" | at now+2hours`, atq and atrm
> for canceling.
>
> cheers,
> &rw
it is a directory. i was able to wipe it with no complaint.
wipe -r *it* got both the directory and the text file off my machine.
bob
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