Re: Removing bad fsck inode files

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 01:19:20 -0300

Michael Clark <michael@astrolog.net> said:
> Tom,
>
> The corruption has probably set the immutable flag on these files.
>
> Have you tried: chattr -i *

On _really_ screwed up files it is worse than that. I recently got rid of
two undeletables using debugfs: Directories that had turned into block
devices with humongous major/minors. They even used triple indirect
blocks(!). fsck from e2fsprogrs-1.17 segfaulted on them.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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