Re: [offtopic] undeletable file on corrupted ext2 partion

Jared Mauch (jared@puck.nether.net)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 23:12:12 -0400 (EDT)

I've encoutered this before on my busier systems, and I had lots of
weird file perms modes, sizes, etc.. that ended up in lost+found, I eventually
fixed it by copying all the important files (it was a mail spool), off
of the disk, newfsing it, and copying them back.

You can get the ext2ed stuff from
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs, but I never bothered with that
to determine what I could have done to fix it.

- Jared

Stephen Beynon boldly claimed:
>
> I have a ext2 partion that corrupted due to a hardware fault (since
> rectified :) - but I am left with a file that has been corrupted so that
> it looks like a symbolic link.
>
> rm returns
> rm: /bin/red: Operation not permitted
>
> when I try to rm the file as root - should this be possible ?
>
> e2fsck 1.10 claimed to have repaired the filesystem, and does not report
> any errors when I force it to run now.
>
> I am guessing that this is more of a problem with e2fsck rather than the
> kernel drivers so sorry for the off topic post.
>
> now where did I leave the filesystem editor :(
>
> Stephen
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> 

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