Re: Wrong file size, is it dangerous?

Michael K Vance (mkv102@psu.edu)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:15:42 -0500


Ricardo Galli Granada wrote:

> 1. Can I delete it safely? (I am scared to do it, I even trying to avoid a
> reboot...)

Most likely, you won't be able to. This sort of thing happened to me once, and
I had to boot from a rescue disk and use debugfs to remove the files.

> 2. How can I see what's wrong in the file? I tried to do lseek and I am
> getting errors. How can I send you more useful information?

Debugfs will print a bunch of info about what exactly was wrong with the
file--I'm not sure if it will be useful or not.

m.

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