Re: Ext2fs getting hosed by fsck

Teunis Peters (teunis@usa.net)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:45:59 -0600 (MDT)


On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> Take a good look at that. None of the files have the owner write
> bit set, which would be the eigth bit I think. The device numbers
> generally range from 32 to 116. It looks like ASCII text got into
> your inodes.
>
> Why does e2fsck keep the '?' files? They seem completely
> illegal, at least as far as /bin/ls can tell.

No they're not - many can be international text (eg UTF-8 in the kbd-font
package)

FWIW, eh?
- Teunis