Re: ext2_unlink fun

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:46:17 -0400

"Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net> said:
> My machine locked hard last night for an unknown reason under
> 2.4.3-pre4. Rebooted and it did it's fsck thing. Got alot of errors
> about missing '..', fixed alot of things and moved some stuff to
> /lost+found.
>
> Some files got screwed up so I can't delete them.

Usually wierd permissions, in particular, spurious immutable flags. Has
happened to me when bugs in the kernel wrote garbage over inodes. Try
lsattr(1), chattr(1). Or debugfs(8) or such.

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