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Re: oddlu corrupted file during slink upgrade



On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 11:39:39PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell spewed forth:

> > gusgus:~ # ls -l /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz
> > prw--ws---   1 505      38296           0 Jan  2  1970 /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz
> > 
> > And I can't delete it
> 
> This looks familiar.  I'd suggest:
> 1) e2fsck -cf /dev/hd?

Haven't run 'fsck -cf', but badblocks does run clean on the partition,
as does 'fsck -f'.

> 2) try to move the file

gusgus:/usr/man/man2 # mv iopl.2.gz /tmp
mv: cannot move `iopl.2.gz' to `/tmp/iopl.2.gz': Operation not permitted

> 3) make a ramdisk, move the file to the ramdisk, reboot (I get a sneaky
>    and devilish feeling doing that)

gusgus:/usr/man/man2 # df /mnt
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ram0               3963      13     3746      0%   /mnt
gusgus:/usr/man/man2 # mv iopl.2.gz /mnt
mv: cannot move `iopl.2.gz' across filesystems: Not a regular file

> 4) probably the one you will hear the most: debugfs

This, however, worked.

Thanks!

PeeWee

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