Re: Wrong file size, is it dangerous?

Michael K Vance (mkv102@psu.edu)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 18:30:13 -0500


"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:

> The attributes in the file show that it is normal. Not necessarily
> okay, but a normal file with rw attributes. You should be able
> to remove this file.

Right. I was dealing with *totally* garbage files... character devices and
block devices with major and minor numbers in that were invalid, etc. I would
get "operation not permitted" messages when trying to do anything such as rm
and lsattr.

m.

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