Re: Can't remove device even as root
On Sun, 31 May 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
: I recently had a large portion of my hard disk got trashed.
: Somehow a directory in my home director got mutated into a device file.
: Even logged in as root I can't seam to get rid of it. Any ideas. I'm
: trying to clean up to do a final backup before trashing everything and
: starting over.
I believe you want to look into `chattr' and `debugfs'
On a semi-related note, there was once talk of a journaled filesystem
for Linux and/or FreeBSD type systems. Has there been any progress on
this front?
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