Re: strange file ...??

daniel provencher (daniel@laurentides.net)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:13:08 -0300


At 09:25 PM 9/22/97 +0100, you wrote:

well, i did rm -f, no result, operation not permited, chown, and chmod same
thing,, so i did fschk, it erased my strange files, but erase too my all
directory under /var

thanks
in regard

>Have you run fsck on the volume? It looks very much like disk corruption,
>especially the strange number of links...
>
>On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, daniel provencher wrote:
>
>> hello all
>>
>> today i found a stange file on my system, i cant erase file, cant
>> change mode, cant change owner, i cant do anything with it (and i'm in
>> root) so there is info about this files, hope someone have any idea what
>> to do with it, i want to delete it, cause my tape backup tell me it's
>> 932Megs file, but when i do df, i have only 540 megs uses, and my HD have
>> 1.2 gigs ;-)
>> there is the info when i do ls -al this file is supposed to be a text
>> file, and i cant edit it with joe or vi...
>>
>> c---rw-r-- 28773 2605 21295 56, 48 Dec 28 1993 pserver.log.970903
>>
>> really strange, i never saw this before
>>
>> i really need help for get off this files ;-)
>>
>> in regard
>> Daniel provencher
>>
>
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