Re: Weird ext2fs immortal directory bug

sentry21@cdslash.net
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:04:48 -0400 (EDT)


> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 sentry21@cdslash.net wrote:
> [SNIPPED...]
> >
> > Here's the problem(s) (or at least, the symptoms):
> >
> > sentry21@Petra:1:/lost+found$ ls -l
> > total 0
> > lr----S--- 1 52 12337 0 Nov 1 2022 #3147 ->
> >
>
> Did you try..
> # rm -r lost+found
> # mklost+found
>
> Without knowing how to use the ext2fs tools, and not wanting to
> risk more damage, I tried this and it worked when I had such a
> crash-induced problem.

sentry21@Petra:1:/$ sudo rm -rf lost+found/
rm: cannot unlink `lost+found/#3147': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove directory `lost+found': Directory not empty

Dang.

--Dan

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