Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
>
> I am gonna do one more thing (looking in /proc for any references to
> that file). But at the moment I think that maybe this is some corruption
> in the filesystem (ReiserFS). In that case running reiserfsck might
> help. I am hoping...
Rumours I have heard about reiserfsck suggest to me that taking a backup
is *highly* recommended before doing reiserfsck.
Some copying/backup programs have options to ignore specific files or
directories. That might be applicable here.
By the way, can you mv the file to a less in-the-way place? I once
managed that for a nonexistent file on an ext2 filesystem. With various
command-line options on tar I could back up around it. I didn't manage
to actually get rid of it, though, except by reformatting the partition.
Woould this be an application for and inode editor?
-- hendrik
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