Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:00:31AM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
> On 2006-11-15 @ 19:16:00 (week 46) Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
> > Been there, done that.  Now when I come across a file the is there but
> > isn't, I run mc.  If it's really there, mc will remove it.
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> Well then, that convinced me the problem is to be found at a lower
> level. mc listed the file with a questionmark in front of it, but
> couldn't delete it either ("No such file or directory (2)").
> 
> Right now I am reading man reiserfsck. Let's hope doing a fsck will
> solve my problem.

I've heard bad things about reiserfsck.  According to the rumours,
reiser doesn't appear to have quite as much redindancy as ext2, 
resulting in occasinal hashed file systems.  It is, apparently, 
especially hard on file systems containing files containing inages of 
reiser file systems.  I don't know if it has other problems, but the 
rumours are not encouraging.

So:

Backup first.  If you have trouble backing up that file (isn't that 
where some of this discussion started?) you might use the parameters tar 
has to skip particular files or directories by name.

-- hendrik