> > 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)
No, the ? was in the file type character (-/d/b/c/...) not in the name.
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