Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

[Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend  
> to have to log on to very often.  I checked the bad directory and get  
> this:
>
> [hal@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? reportX/2009-raw?@?
>
> At this point this is the only file in the directory.  Originally the  
> directory was "report" but I changed it to "reportX" and moved all the  
> other files out of that directory and into the new one (since my rsync  
> cron job only backs up specific directories).  If there are more files  
> in that directory, I get just the file names, but this rogue file shows 
> up in the listing with the directory name first -- every time.  I've 
> tried this:
>
> [hal@scarecrow:threshNet]$ rm reportX/*
> rm: cannot lstat `reportX/2009-raw\237@\037': No such file or directory

Sounds to me like you may be dealing with a (hopefully) minor case of
filesystem corruption.  Have you tried running fsck over that device?
(Don't forget to unmount it first!)

-- 
Dave Sherohman