Re: undeleteable file

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:37:38 -0600
Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

I'll try  but every attempt to do anything to the file so far has been
greeted by "permission denied".



> 
> 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.
> 

   That's not really a problem - I'm running Sid so there isn't much on
the partition that is irreplaceable :)

> 
> Welcome to the "I've had an important disk fail" merit badge club!   
> (GRIN)

    Thanks...do I get a membership card ?


Cheers


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