Re: fs corruption problem

[Michael Fratoni <mfratoni tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Sunday 29 June 2003 12:14 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
> Michael,
> Yes, naturally I've tried all options of rm as documented in rm --help
> and man rm.
> Also true of rmdir.

Ahh, it was worth a shot...

> 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.

You may have already posted this info, but how about the output of:
ll /path/to/file(s)
lsattr /path/to/file(s)

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