Re: fs corruption problem

[Julian Opificius <julianop mninter net>]

Michael,
Yes, naturally I've tried all options of rm as documented in rm --help and 
man rm.
Also true of rmdir.

Yes I want to remove it because during the boot process I'm told there are 
bad characters in the file name.
The two rogue files was originally here:
/var/log/seti//dev/log
/var/log/seti//var/loc

Obviously that's not right. Seti is a  application data directory for my 
command line seti app.

/dev/log and /var/loc are pretending to be dirctories but they're not. I 
can't remove them as files or directories, but at boot time the system 
tells me they're bad file names and won't let the boot continue. When I go 
in to a diagnostic shell (and remount the root directory as RW, of course) 
I cannot delete them.

Again, rm and rmdir are trying to be too smart. I think I need a low level 
utility that will allow me to remove the entries without trying to be smart 
and protecting me from myself, but I don't know of any such thing. Any more 
clues, anyone? I'm down for over 12 hours now.

julian.
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At 10:58 AM 6/29/03, you wrote:
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> On Sunday 29 June 2003 10:28 am, Julian Opificius wrote:
> > Thanks Fred, but as I said, rm doesn't work - even with the -f switch
> > and escaping the forward slash(es).
> > I don't think the C code will work - isn't that just what rm tries to
> > do?
> >
> > If I do a rm -f "/dev/log"  it just ignores me.
> > If I do a rm -f -d "/dev/log" it ignores me.
> > If I go one level higher, and do the  same on the directory holding the
> > offending "files":
> > rm -f -d setiold  it tells me it can't delete setiold as it's a
> > directory. Yes I know it's a directory, that's why I said -d but it
> > still ignores me.
>
> I haven't really followed this thread...
>
> Are you sure you want to remove /dev/log?
> [mfratoni paradox slinky]$ file /dev/log
> /dev/log: socket
> [mfratoni paradox slinky]$ ll /dev/log
> srw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Jun  4 19:51 /dev/log
>
> > I've tried rmdir, but that won't work either - it tells me the
> > directory isn't empty. If I use the --ignore-fail-on-non-empty switch
> > it ignores me.
>
> How about rm -rf directory? (remove, recursively, the directory and it's
> contents, without prompting
>
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