Re: How do I remove a bad file??
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message
<[🔎] 20120502050455.GA25123@well-adjusted.de>:
> Dennis Wicks:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
> >
> > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf
> >
> > I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
> > have thought of to get rid of it or write over it.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can get this thing out of my life??
>
> Fsck the filesystem.
..first, umount it right _now!_
..if Inbox.msf is your email, you will now learn why, how etc
back-ups are nice. And you _may_ want to learn how to retrieve
bad data tha's been removed by fsck to save the file system.
..depending on how valuable your data is, be careful, "fsck \
-N /dev/bad.disk.part" is a safe start if you're in a hurry,
it makes you slow down and verify you understood "man fsck".
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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