Re: Strange Problem with a File on Redhat 5.0

Peter Moulder (reiter@netspace.net.au)
11 Dec 1998 10:26:16 +1100


Tony Wade <dingbat@iceland.ml.org> writes:

> I have a strange problem with a file that i cannot move, remove ,
> rename, kill or demolish.
>
> Here is what i get when doing a ls -al in the / dir
>
> b---r-S--T 1 29295 28257 102, 47 Jun 20 2034 tmp

Run e2fsck version 1.12 over that filesystem (with the `-f' flag). If
that doesn't work, use debugfs or ext2ed to set the link count of that
file to zero, and then run `e2fsck -f' over the filesystem again.

pjm.

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