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Re: How do I remove a bad file??



On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> 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.

What happens when you try? What error messages do you get?

What filesystem is this file on, and what are its mount arguments?
Run this from the directory to find out:

    mount|grep $(df .|tail -1|awk '{print $1}')


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