On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not permitted. The file is also dated 1931 !This is the output of ls -l frank@debian:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko Weird huh!
Not really.It has really strange permissions, and it's in lost+found, which is an indication that you have already had some form of filesystem damage that was probably "fixed" by an fsck.
You might want to give it normal permissions first before trying other operations on it, and it still may be that you have other filesystem damage to whatever kind of filesystem you're running there that wasn't truly fixed by the fsck.
If you suspect the drive is dying, it's probably a very good time to copy any data or files you need off of it, depending on the state of the drive, it may already be too late. Hopefully you have been making proper backups all along.
Various tools may or may not be useful -- you're already into the realm of "filesystem recovery", and if it's the first time you've ever done it, you could be in for a steep (but usually short) learning curve. It won't take long to decide if your disk is really dying, as other "strange" behavior might show up very soon.
Get your important data/files off of it, if you need to -- and then exercise it heavily... format, heavy read/write (tools like bonnie++, etc... can help here), and generally "abuse" it and see if it holds up to the stress.
Welcome to the "I've had an important disk fail" merit badge club! (GRIN)
-- Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com