Re: undeleteable file
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 05:27, Frank McCormick wrote:
> The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is
> dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found.
>
> No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown
> reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group.
>
> Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ?
If the HD is physically broken you can expect any sorts of weird behaviour
from it. Maybe you can't read from the disk as expected and writing may be
impossible (for some parts of the disk at least)
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