Re: undeletable files in /lost+found

Phil's Kernel Account (kernel@eiterra.nls.net)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 02:03:10 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

#On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Joseph Skinner wrote:
#> The files have attributes like the following
#> any idea how this sort of file may be deleted?
#You'll need to use debugfs and clear the inodes. /bin/rm just won't do
#it.

Fair warning.

debugfs: ls -l
11 40755 0 0 12288 28-May-98 23:32 .
2 40755 0 0 1024 10-Jun-98 10:40 ..
0 0 0 0 0 31-Dec-69 19:00 #28859
28945 66537 29541 14385 1701273971 1-Jun-75 09:54 #28945
28946 67056 29797 28265 1919959306 15-Aug-95 02:09 #28946
Segmentation fault

[root@eiterra /lost+found]# ls -la |more
total 3769209649
br-s-wsrwx 1 29541 14385 117, 110 Jun 1 1975 #28945
b--Sr-srwT 1 29797 28265 50, 48 Aug 15 1995 #28946
br-s-wsrwx 1 29541 14385 117, 110 Jun 1 1975 #29081
b--Sr-srwT 1 29797 28265 50, 48 Aug 15 1995 #29082

In short; ls -l is broken severely in debugfs, one. And two, when your
filesystem looks like THAT, it may end up being easier to mkfs.ext2 yer
drive. ;P

-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586
Linux eiterra.nls.net 2.1.98 #15 Fri May 1 18:21:00 EDT 1998 i586
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