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Re: OT: strange disk crash after upgrade



On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
>Federico Di Gregorio <fog@mist.org> wrote:
>> Sorry for this little out-of-topic question but the problem happened
>> to the machine I use to do Debian work and nobody on the IRC was able
>> to help me...
>
>Ok, but you might want to try debian-user...
>
>> But the worse part is that now I have in lost+found a lot of files I
>> can't remove! Example:
>>
>> br-sr-sr-x   1 30063    28001    111,  77 Jan 30  1987 #21311
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul 24 08:57 #2234
>> ?rwsrwsrwt   1 65535    65535    4294967295 Jan  1  1970 #2241
>
>First thing to try is
># cd /var/lost+found && chmod 666 * 

When things get stuffed badly enough that you get SUID block device files
appearing out of no-where a chmod won't fix it.  "debugfs" appears to be the
only possibly solution.
I believe that Ted is working on e2fsck support for getting the file system
to a state where "rm" will work.

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