Re: File impossible to delete <Solved!>
This is one for the books!
Clint Adams wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> > >
> > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
> > > total 269488144
> > > c---r----- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts
> > >
> > > I can't delete it!
>
> You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it.
This worked (with /dev/sda3 mounted as the root filesystem):
debugfs -w -R "rm /root/Mail/drafts" /dev/sda3
Thanks everybody!
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Peter Galbraith, research scientist <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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