files won't delete
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:45:16 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and said:
...Not quite. Look at a normal file with ls -l :
samantha:~-News$ ls -l Score -rw-r--r-- 1 mhgraham users 40179 Jul 27 14:10 Score
Jack Ouzzi It is unfortunate that you have gotten some of the replies you have gotten here. Some people are just rude and...
See how the first character is a - . That means that Score is a normal file. If the first character is 'd', it's a directory, 'l', it's a symlink, 'p', it's a FIFO, 's', it's a socket, 'b', it's a block device, 'c', it's a character device.
In a message on 11 Sep 2005 04:41:19 -0700, wrote : The difference (and sudo is even better...
If you see '?' as the first character, that means trouble. Specifically, it means filesystem trouble. The thing that phwashington should do is umount the filesystem that this bad file is on, then fsck that filesystem (or xfsrepair if it's XFS, or whatever.) Use -f if fsck says the filesystem is clean. If fsck doesn't find any problems and it's an ext23 filesystem, read the man page for debugfs several times, then use debugfs.
These kinds of problems can be really annoying; hope it isn't anything too serious. If the disk this filesystem is on is IDE, run "smartctl -a" on the disk and see if that reports any errors.
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